

Paterson
Beauty is often found in the smallest details.
A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of many famous poets and artists.
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7.1/10
2,141 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $5M
- Box office
- $2.2M
- Language
- English
- husband wife relationship
- new jersey
- poetry
- routine
- eavesdropping
- beer
- notebook
- bus driver
- hobby
- twins
- dog
- drink
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Behind the camera
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Produced in
United States of America, Germany, France
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereNew York Film Festival2 Oct 2016
- PremiereMill Valley Film Festival7 Oct 2016
- PremiereHamptons International Film Festival9 Oct 2016
- PremiereChicago International Film Festival15 Oct 2016
- PremiereMiddleburg Film Festival22 Oct 2016
- PremierePhiladelphia Film Festival27 Oct 2016
- PremiereHawaii Film Festival5 Nov 2016
- PremiereAFI Fest12 Nov 2016
- Theatrical (limited)R28 Dec 2016
- PhysicalR4 Apr 2017
- Digital / OTTRPrime Video22 Jun 2017
United KingdomGB
- PremiereBFI London Film Festival10 Oct 2016
- Theatrical1525 Nov 2016
AustraliaAU
- PremiereSydney Film Festival14 Jun 2016
- PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival29 Jul 2016
- Theatrical (limited)M22 Dec 2016
CanadaCA
- PremiereToronto International Film Festival8 Sept 2016
- Theatrical (limited)PG10 Feb 2017
ArgentinaAR
- PremiereMar del Plata Film Festival19 Nov 2016
- TheatricalATP9 Nov 2017
AustriaAT
- PremiereVienna International Film Festival22 Oct 2016
- Theatrical18 Nov 2016
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical7 Dec 2016
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1220 Apr 2017
ChileCL
- Theatrical22 Jun 2017
ColombiaCO
- Theatrical10 Aug 2017
CroatiaHR
- Theatrical11 May 2017
CzechiaCZ
- PremiereKarlovy Vary International Film Festival3 Jul 2016
- Theatrical5 Jan 2017
Frequently asked questions
Paterson was released on 17 November 2016.
Audience reviews
5- F
Frank Ochieng
12/27/2016
If you appreciate the delicacies of a quiet, slice-of-life dramedy that hinges on the edginess of minimal observations of routine life as an artistic examination then you are in for a delectable treat with the skillful and witty inflections of writer/director Jim Jarmusch’s whimsical and wry offering **Paterson**. Jarmusch, known for his quirky and sedated dramas that include the highly underrated 2005 Bill Murray ve…
- R8/10
Reno
10/22/2017
**A week with a bus driver, a part time poet.** The time Jim Jarmusch has struck back. He does not make films often, but those he makes are not easily forgettable. I don't think people hate his films, especially the grown ups. They know how hard the real life is and contents this filmmaker use for his flicks are not much different. But the thing is, in his style, adding a slight fun, romantic, poetic, all together…
- C6/10
CRCulver
7/21/2018
Jim Jarmusch's 2016 film PATERSON is a study of everyday life in a small American city. Its title refers on one hand to its setting of Paterson, New Jersey, much less known abroad than other towns in the state but a surprising number of prominent Americans hailed from there and it was eulogized in an epic-length work by the poet William Carlos Williams. On the other hand, Paterson is coincidentally the last name of o…
- P10/10
Peter McGinn
9/22/2021
I will go out a limb here (and try not to cut the branch out from under myself) and say that I feel this is nearly a perfect movie. Oh, I don’t mean that it is one of the best of all time, or even that it makes my own top ten list. But rarely does a film live up so well to what it strives to accomplish. It is a quiet and gentle movie, full of love in nearly every scene. The two leads have great chemistry together.…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
9/11/2025
On the face of it, there is nothing remarkable about this eponymous bus driver who might have been named after his town. He (Adam Driver) shares his home with wife “Laura” (Golshifteh Farahani) and their’s is an happy marriage. Each morning, he heads to his depot where he has the usual chat with his glass-half-empty colleague “Donny” (Rizwan Manji) before setting off driving route 23. She has prepared his sandwich fo…
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