At its best, this is a movie of unusual integrity and insight.
Restaurant (1998)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:9
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Bross (TEN BENNY) has crafted an engaging film about early adulthood and the battle to successfully bridge life and art. The twenty-something employees of a Hoboken, New Jersey restaurant dream of... Bross (TEN BENNY) has crafted an engaging film about early adulthood and the battle to successfully bridge life and art. The twenty-something employees of a Hoboken, New Jersey restaurant dream of having successful artistic careers, but in the meantime, they must struggle to pay the bills amidst the melodrama of real life relationship troubles. The film features extremely solid performances by the attractive young cast, most notably Brody, Neal, Moscow, and Hill. [More]
Starring: Adrien Brody, Elise Neal, David Moscow, Simon Baker
Starring: Adrien Brody, Elise Neal, David Moscow, Simon Baker, Catherine Kellner, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Lauryn Hill, John Carroll Lynch, Sybil Temchen, Vonte Sweet, Michael Stoyanov, Lori Heuring
Director: Eric Bross
Director: Eric Bross
Screenwriter: Tom Cudworth
Producer: Eric Bross, H. M. Coakley, Shana Stein
Composer: Theodore Shapiro
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Reviews for Restaurant
Attempting to ratchet up tension, Bross relies on forced crosscutting and stagey clichés.
Thankfully, the film itself is a whole lot better than the name might indicate.
Maybe you'd do better cooking at home than heading for this Restaurant tonight.
The film is blessed by two fine lead performances, as Brody and Neal both offer naturalistic, understated interpretations.
There are a million stories in the big city, we understand from the start -- and this isn't one of them.
I don't know anything about the background of director Eric Bross or screenwriter Tom Cudworth, but I'm guessing at least one used to be a bartender.
Solid performances, capable visuals, and the honesty of the interracial subject matter make Restaurant stand out from the typical 'I'm an artist, not really a waiter' pack.
Brody, who has the lean-and-hungry charisma of a skinny young De Niro, turns his potentially cliched, tortured artist character into somebody from whom you'd actually want to buy a drink.
Restaurant is like an hour long TV drama caught somewhere between Showtime and WB.
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