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Diner (1982)

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Reviews Counted:25

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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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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

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

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Dan Jardine
Dan Jardine
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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

Witty and fun.

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Christopher Null
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A testament to the fine art of screenwriting.

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