Cigarettes & Coffee
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- Director
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Language
- English
- Released
- 1993-08-03
- Runtime
- 24m
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At a desert diner, the lives of five strangers become linked through a single twenty-dollar bill. Shot for $20,000 and starring Philip Baker Hall, the short premiered at Sundance and later inspired Anderson’s debut feature Hard Eight (1996).
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