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Another Amazon production and yet another film about ordinary people. Adam Driver plays Paterson a bus driver in Paterson, New Jersey. Much of the action takes place as he is driving his bus and the actor actually got certified as a bus driver. The actor is not a Hollywood Matineé idol. A creature of habit his one avocation is writing poetry which he keeps in a secret notebook. We hear the conversations that go on in the bus he drives as he watches the road and maneuvers the bus along its route. In the morning he grabs his watch, hugs his wife and sits to have a bowl of Cheerios. Walks to work with a lunch box in hand then mounts his bus. In this city drivers are not encased in a security wall. At the end of the day he takes the reverse route home lunch box in hand checking the mailbox which he then straightens and enters his small saltbox home. Marvin his English Bulldog gives a grunting growl in welcome. After dinner he clips the lease on the dog and they take a familiar stroll that includes sit-stay with leash pushed over a pipe while he enters a local bar for a pint served by an aging man of colour who greets him by name. Next morning he again picks up the watch, checks the time and the mundane quotidian repeats itself.