Coffee Town
A café-dependent slacker recruits his friends for an absurd fake robbery to protect his favorite workspace and confront his stalled personal life.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Mild
- Complexity
- Simple
- Violence
- Mild
- witty
- irreverent
- breezy
- lazy sunday
- casual group viewing
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Will treats Coffee Town as his office, making the café both his workplace and the source of the central conflict.
Will, Chad, and Gino stage a robbery to make the neighborhood appear unsafe and block the café's conversion into a bar.
Will is a freeloading website manager whose café-based lifestyle and avoidance of responsibility drive the story.
Will relies on Chad and Gino to preserve his lifestyle, with their friendship expressed through reckless collaboration.
Films like Coffee Town, and why
Office Space
shares an irreverent slacker ensemble, workplace-adjacent misadventures, and escalating comic schemes
The Hangover
shares chaotic friendship, immature schemes, and breezy buddy-comedy energy
I Love You, Man
shares a low-stakes romantic subplot, comic ineptitude, and warm ensemble humor
The Internship
shares workplace satire, friendship-driven plotting, and carefree comedic tone
Movie Details
- Director
- Brad Copeland
- Release Date
- 2013-07-09
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 (110)
Cast
- Glenn Howerton
- Steve Little
- Ben Schwartz
- Adrianne Palicki
- Josh Groban
- Matt Walsh
- Jake Johnson
- Derek Waters
- Brian Huskey
- Josh Perry
Common questions
- What is Coffee Town about?
- A café-dependent slacker recruits his friends for an absurd fake robbery to protect his favorite workspace and confront his stalled personal life.
- What is Coffee Town like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Coffee Town as brisk, its intensity as mild and its storytelling as simple.
- Is Coffee Town violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Coffee Town as mild.
- Which films are like Coffee Town?
- Films with a similar feel include Office Space, The Hangover, I Love You, Man, and The Internship.
- How long is Coffee Town?
- Coffee Town runs 87 minutes.
