Over Coffee (Short)
Sean Meehan’s “Over Coffee” is a warm and witty short film about a guy and a girl who come together, well, over coffee. But the nice thing about this film is that it doesn’t head in the direction you think it’s going to head in when you think that premise. These people bond over a specific incident involving coffee, but it’s not a laid-back affair. That’s what makes it enjoyable to watch. We begin with Andrew (Erik Potempa) and David (Michael Oberholtzer) discussing sexting at a day at the office- well, David is discussing it, while Andrew is basically humoring him. We see another employee, Laura (Mallory Portnoy), start to get frantic about getting some information down on a specific color post-it note so that her boss, Hamilton Rice (Timothy J. Cox, great as always), will actually take it seriously, all the while not having gotten his coffee for the morning yet. In a pinch, Andrew steps up and offers to get it for her, but he’s going to run into some complications of his own. The film offers little in the way of insight (save for a sharp jab or two at casual workplace sexism) but much in the way of entertainment and humor, as Meehan lets his premise play out in an easy manner that makes the way it ends feel natural, but also quite pleasurable, as well.
