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19. Baghdad Cafe

Tue Nov 18, 2025, 11:14 AM

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Roger Ebert
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Bagdad Cafe movie review & film summary (1988) | Roger Ebert
The proprietor is a free-thinking black woman named Brenda (CCH Pounder - yes, CCH Pounder), who shares the premises with her teenage children, a baby… Jack Palance …

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He is saying something in this movie about Europe and America, about the old and the new, about the edge of the desert as the edge of the American Dream. I am not sure exactly what it is, but that is comforting; if a director could assemble these strange characters and then know for sure what they were doing in the same movie together, he would be too confident to find the humor in their situation. The charm of “Bagdad Cafe” is that every character and every moment is unanticipated, obscurely motivated, of uncertain meaning and vibrating with life.

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(note: the cook is native not Italian)

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