When I was nine years old, I saw a movie called Cop and a Half starring Burt Reynolds as a cop who teams up with a young black boy (Norman D. Golden II) to solve a murder. It's a better movie than you probably remember, and one I liked quite a bit as a kid. Michael Dowse's new Netflix movie Coffee & Kareem is cut from the same crime comedy cloth, but its target audience is decidedly different. Cop and a Half was rated PG and aimed at families, whereas Coffee & Kareem is very much an R-…

Netflix's Coffee & Kareem doesn't offer anything new but it's still a solid, raucous romp.

Netflix has released the first Coffee & Kareem red-band trailer, offering a NSFW look at the upcoming Netflix original comedy film. Directed by Michael Dowse, the filmmaker behind the underrated comedies Goon and What If, and written by Shane Mack, the film stars Ed Helms as a police officer named James Coffee who has newly struck up a relationship with a woman named Vanessa (Taraji P. Henson). The only “problem” in this relationship is James’ inability to form a solid relationship with Vanessa’s son, Kareem (Terrence Little Gardenhigh). But when Kareem and James are both witnesses to a …

Betty Gilpin, the Emmy-nominated star of GLOW, has joined the cast of Netflix's crime comedy Coffee & Kareem along with young newcomer Terrence Little Gardenhigh, RonReaco Lee and social media sensation Andrew Bachelor. Ed Helms and Taraji P. Henson are set to star in the film, which Michael Dowse (Stuber) is directing from a Black List script by Shane McCarthy. Helms will play a Detroit cop who reluctantly teams with his girlfriend’s (Henson) 11 year-old son to clear his name and take down the city’s most ruthless criminal. Gardenhigh will play the young protagonist, Kareem, …

Ed Helms and Taraji P. Henson are set to star in Netflix's crime comedy Coffee & Kareem, Collider has learned. Michael Dowse (Goon) will direct from a script by Shane McCarthy that was voted to the 2014 Black List of Hollywood's best unproduced screenplays. That makes sense, because I love this logline. Get a load of this... Helms will play a Detroit cop who reluctantly teams with his girlfriend’s (Henson) 11 year-old son to clear his name and take down the city’s most ruthless criminal. Now I know what you're thinking. This sounds an …