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Diner (1982)

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Reviews Counted:25

Fresh:24

Rotten:1

Average Rating:8.2/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 25 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: 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... 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. [More]

Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon

Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Ellen Barkin, Paul Reiser, Timothy Daly

Director: Barry Levinson

Director: Barry Levinson

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10/27/05
Rebecca Murray
Rebecca Murray
About.com

A clever, biting script buoys a cast of soon-to-be famous actors in this endearing male-bonding ritual writ large.

Full Review Source: All Movie Guide | comment Comment
09/25/01
Dan Jardine
Dan Jardine
All Movie Guide

Barry Levinson's directorial debut from his own Oscar-nominated script remains his most perfectly realised and charming movie and is a fitting eulogy to his home town of Baltimore.

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04/17/01
David Wood
David Wood
BBC

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.

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03/27/01
Boxoffice Magazine

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02/08/07
Rob Thomas
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

Diner is often a very funny movie, although I laughed most freely not at the sexual pranks but at the movie's accurate ear, as it reproduced dialogue with great comic accuracy.

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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
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10/01/07
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
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A testament to the fine art of screenwriting.

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01/01/00
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com

Made by an insider, Baltimore's son Barry Levinson, who gets the texture and characters right, Diner is one of the most perceptive youth tales about the gulf between the sexes before the subject became a debatable issue.

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06/12/06
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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Witty and fun.

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01/01/00
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

Even with all its accolades, it's still an underappreciated gem

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09/13/05
Edward Havens
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07/26/02
Rob Vaux
Rob Vaux
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04/07/05
Andy Klein
Andy Klein
Los Angeles CityBeat

Diner is a naturalistically acted movie, but Rourke is so fluent with streetwise gesture and cool grace that he makes his costars look like the Three Stooges.

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11/06/01
Michael Atkinson
Michael Atkinson
Movieline

Movies like Diner -- fresh, well-acted and energetic American movies by new directors with the courage of their convictions -- are an endangered species.

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05/20/03
Janet Maslin
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09/06/02
Jeffrey Westhoff
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

Thoroughly enjoyable nostalgia film about lost youth that's as refreshing as a cup of coffee from a Greek diner.

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05/19/09
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
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06/04/04
Sarah Chauncey
Sarah Chauncey
Reel.com

Diner features a group of twentysomething friends whose camaraderie, hijinks and troubles ought to resonate with many viewers.

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02/04/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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04/21/03
Shannon J. Harvey
Shannon J. Harvey
Sunday Times (Australia)
 
 
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