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Fries with gravy, a cherry cola. Friendship, bragging rightsand does Sinatra or Mathis croon the best makeout music? Before there was the counterculture of the 60s, there was the counter culture.From his Oscar-script, Barry Levinson makes his directing debut with this endearing slice of life about pals in transition. Film-debuting Ellen Barkin plays a neglected wife. Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Timothy Daly and Paul Reiser-chosen from over 600 hopefuls-play the up-all-night buddies who work out the remnants of adolescence and briefly put the future on hold during ritual grazings at a busy steel-and-vinyl diner in 1959 Baltimore. Stars, laughs, poignancy, interlocking stories (including a marriage thats off if the bride doesnt pass a tough exam on pro football) entertainment is the daily special in Diner.
"...made with care and affection..." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
"A banquet of fast food and funny talk." Richard Corliss, Time Magazine
Editor's Note
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 fiance 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.
Plot Summary
A group of buddies hangs out in their neighborhood diner, whiling away the time joshing, bragging, and whining. But beneath the jokes runs a current of fear and disappointment over adulthood.
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