Synopsis
A German woman named Jasmin stumbles upon a dilapidated motel/diner in the middle of nowhere. Her unusual appearance and demeanor are at first suspicious to Brenda, the exasperated owner who has difficulty making ends meet. But when an unlikely magic sparks between the two women, this lonely desert outpost is transformed into a thriving and popular oasis.
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Cast
- Marianne SägebrechtJasmin Münchgstettner
- CCH PounderBrenda
- Jack PalanceRudi Cox
- Christine KaufmannDebby
- Monica CalhounPhyllis
- Darron FlaggSalomo
- George AguilarCahuenga
- G. Smokey CampbellSal
- Hans StadlbauerMünchgstettner
- Alan S. CraigEric
Recommendations
- 90
Los Angeles Times
Bagdad Cafe, which Adlon wrote with his wife, Eleonore, and Christopher Doherty, is a miracle of timing and control for all its aura of zany, off-the-cuff spontaneity. It is the work of a director who has such a clear idea of what he wants and where he's going that he can take his time to build up every joke for the maximum payoff. - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
The charm of Bagdad Cafe is that every character and every moment is unanticipated, obscurely motivated, of uncertain meaning and vibrating with life. - 88
TV Guide Magazine
Bagdad Cafe is a visually exhilarating and consciously modern film, more concerned with projecting an atmosphere or spirit than with telling a story. It's hard not to fall in love with this comic fable about the magic that develops at the meeting of two cultures. - 75
Washington Post
With its foibles and quirks, it's something like a Sam Shepard play by way of the Black Forest. - 75
Chicago Tribune
Much of the film`s charm resides in the fact that there is no reason for any of this to happen, except for the director`s sheer will that it be so. - 40
The New York Times
Bagdad Cafe is too slow-paced to work as a comedy, and its screenplay manages simultaneously to be both shapeless and pat.
