Anthony Bowman approached the four main actors (he was married to Jeanie Drynan) and the heads of department of the crew and said that he could raise enough money to make the film if each of them became a producer, working for expenses only, taking equal points in the project.

He raised money from investors to film the movie the take it to fine cut.

"[5] Filmnews called the movie " adventurous in the way it pushes formal structure and works on a number of different levels" as an ensemble character piece, a thriller and a tribute to acting.

The timing of its comic effects is not quite precise enough, the exploration of character is not quite insightful enough, interchanges are not as sharply scripted as they should be, and the sometimes slack direction and muddy photography just fails to convey the sort of pace and joy that a movie like this needs.

"[6] Shelley Kay wrote in Cinema Papers that "There is so much happening in Cappuccino conversations: love affaires, chaos, investigations and intrigues, comedy, statements about the state of Sydney theatre, murder, pornography, prison and coffee.