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An offbeat study of mis-matched characters who find paradise off the beaten track at the Bagdad Cafe. It's just a greasy spoon and a rusty fuel pump, but for Jasmin, an odd customer with suspicious cleaning habits, and Brenda, the cafe's loud, sloppy and overworked owner, it's a lot more than a rest stop. Read more

Starring Marianne Sagebrecht, C.C.H. Pounder, Jack Palance, Monica Calhoun
Director Percy Adlon
Genres Comedy

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Bagdad Cafe

An offbeat study of mis-matched characters who find paradise off the beaten track at the Bagdad Cafe. It's just a greasy spoon and a rusty fuel pump, but for Jasmin, an odd customer with suspicious cleaning habits, and Brenda, the cafe's loud, sloppy and overworked owner, it's a lot more than a rest stop.

Starring Marianne Sagebrecht, C.C.H. Pounder, Jack Palance, Monica Calhoun
Director Percy Adlon
Studio ARROW FILMS
Run time DVD: 1 hr 27 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 12.gif
Genres Comedy
Language English
Released DVD: 22 Apr 2002
Production year: 1988
Format DVD

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    Co-written and co-produced with his wife Eleanore and starring his regular favourite Marianne Sägebrecht, German director Percy Adlon's first American feature is a hypnotic blend of feminist fantasy and Capra-esque feel-good. Set in a run-down diner in the middle of the Arizona desert, the action centres on the impact Sägebrecht has on the claustrophobic local community, in particular on café boss CCH Pounder and an ageing hippy artist, played with an instinctive comic touch by the undervalued Jack Palance. Although there are some shrewd asides on racial friction, this is still the kind of gentle comedy you can simply sink into your armchair and enjoy.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • A radiant, oddball comedy-drama about the relationship that develops between a fat Bavarian tourist (Sägebrecht), an... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 11 out of 13 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Bagdad Cafe

    Jasmin,leaves her husband in the middle of the Mojave Desert with only a suitcase and walks to the Bagdad Cafe. Mix a plump Bavarian woman wound tighter than a drum with an American family living at the edge of despair, a lot of dirt and the heat of the desert and you get quite a nifty little movie. If you like them original and quirky this one's for you.

      • A customer from Cornwall
      • Posted 25 Aug 2004 09:37

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  • 8 out of 12 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    Censorship ruins films

    Unfortunately this 87m version of BC loses the complete thread of the original 118m film.

    For reasons that are beyond me the scenes that make this film complete and understandable are missing. The penultimate Cabaret, German style, scene which finally explains the charm, attraction and the gentleness of the film is missing! Shame, because without it the film seems to have no point.

    Also the subtitled translations are at best awful. My advice is to only view the full version in German.

      • Chorley from Oxfordshire
      • Posted 31 Mar 2004 14:12

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