Coffee & Kareem

Detroit police officer James Coffee is devoted to his girlfriend, Vanessa, but her son Kareem wants nothing to do with him. The boy hires a criminal to frighten the new man in his mother's life, and the scheme accidentally exposes a criminal network that then targets the family. Coffee and Kareem are forced to work together, setting off a chase across Detroit as they try to bring down a dangerous figure and protect Vanessa.

The film is a 2020 action comedy directed by Michael Dowse, written by Shane Mack, and produced by Mike Falbo and Ed Helms. It followed Dowse's 2019 film Stuber in his filmography. Ed Helms plays Coffee, Taraji P. Henson plays Vanessa, and Terrence Little Gardenhigh plays Kareem, with Betty Gilpin, RonReaco Lee and David Alan Grier among the credited cast of 35. The premise pairs mismatched leads in a crime story built around family friction.

Audience response was modest: on IMDb it holds 5.2/10 from 15,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 5.4/10 from 447 votes. A critics' rating of 3.7/10 from 71 reviews places it below both audience scores, indicating a film that drew limited enthusiasm from either group.