Description:A group of buddies hangs out in their neighborhood diner, whiling away the time joshing, bragging, ... Full Descriptionand whining. But beneath the jokes runs a current of fear and disappointment over adulthood.
Barry Levinson's (TIN MEN, AVALON) directorial debut chronicles the relationships between a group of friends living inA group of buddies hangs out in their neighborhood diner, whiling away the time joshing, bragging, ... Full Descriptionand whining. But beneath the jokes runs a current of fear and disappointment over adulthood.
Barry Levinson's (TIN MEN, AVALON) directorial debut chronicles the relationships between a group of friends living in Baltimore in 1959. The uniting factor for this group is their fear of growing up. They spend hour after hour in the local greasy-spoon diner, joking, boasting, bragging, and ultimately escaping reality. Ladies' man Boogie (Mickey Rourke), a hairdresser by day and law student by night, is also in over his head with the local bookie. Momma's boy Eddie (Steve Guttenberg) is about to get married--but only if his fiancée passes a football trivia test. Shrevie (Daniel Stern) is married to Beth (Ellen Barkin) but is more comfortable hanging out with his friends and organizing his record collection. Graduate student Billy (Timothy Daly) is trying to sort out his own love life. And Fenwick (Kevin Bacon) is a poor little rich boy with a warped sense of humor and no direction. Paul Reiser rounds out the group as the nagging but funny Modell.
"Diner is a sort of poor man's American Graffiti, covering the same dramatic turf but lacking the style, wit and strong narrative structure of its predecessor.
- Boxoffice Magazine"
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"Do you ever get the feeling that there's something going on that we don't know about?"
I found this movie at the video store and it looked interesting, so I decided to get it. I thought the dialogue, the time period and the acting was good. It was a bit too long, but I still enjoyed it and it was a good directing debut for Barry Levinson.
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"It's nearly impossible to watch Diner without thinking about George Lucas' American Graffiti; however, I personally prefer the former. It is a sort of coming-of-age film set in the nostalgic 1950's, set up in an episodic narrative, with many overlapping plot points and conflicts. The characters were developed well enough to make this seem like more than just another throwaway comedy. Moreover, it's got some of the most clever, insightful dialogues I've observed in movies lately. It does get a bi"
"The diner used in the movie was moved further downtown in Baltimore, and by 2002 was an on-the-job training school for at-risk youth.
MGM was reluctant to release the film, which they believed would be a commercial flop. But when they found out that critic Pauline Kael had written a glowing review in the New Yorker, they immediately released it.
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