Rent Diner (1982)
3.4 of 5 from 104 ratings
1h 41min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
Fries with gravy, a cherry cola. Friendship, bragging rights...and 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-nominated script, Barry Levinson makes his directing debut with this endearing study of 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 during ritual grazings at a busy steel-and-vinyl hangout in 1959 Baltimore. Stars, laughs, interlocking stories: entertainment is the daily special in Diner. - Actors:
- Steve Guttenberg, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Daniel Stern, Tim Daly, Ellen Barkin, Paul Reiser, Kathryn Dowling, Michael Tucker, Jessica James, Colette Blonigan, Kelle Kipp, John Aquino, Richard Pierson, Claudia Cron, Tait Ruppert, Tom Tammi, Pam Gail, Lauren Zaganas, Sharon Ziman
- Directors:
- Barry Levinson
- Producers:
- Jerry Weintraub
- Writers:
- Barry Levinson
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Comedy, Drama
- Collections:
- A Brief History of Film Weddings: Part 1, A Brief History of Screen Cuisine, A History of Cinemas in Films, All the Best: A Celebration of New Year Movies, All the Twos: 1972-2012, Holidays Film Collection, People of the Pictures, Remembering Michael Madsen, A History of Baseball Films, A Brief History of Film..., The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to Federico Fellini, Top 10 Best Picture Follow-Ups, Top 100 AFI Laughs, Top Films
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 03/10/2016
- Run Time:
- 110 minutes
- Languages:
- Brazilian Portuguese Dolby Digital 1.0, Castilian Spanish Dolby Digital 1.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0, German Dolby Digital 1.0, Latin American Spanish Dolby Digital 1.0
- Subtitles:
- Brazilian, Castillian, English Hard of Hearing, French, German Hard of Hearing, Latin American Spanish
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Behind-the-Scenes Documentary: Diner: On the Flip Side
- Introduction Featuring Writer/Director Barry Levinson and The Film's Stars
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Reviews (1) of Diner
Separate Folders at the Same Table - Diner review by griggs
There’s something instantly comforting about a film that treats a café like a church: you turn up, talk rubbish, and pretend you’re fine. Adulthood’s pulled up a chair, but nobody’s ready to serve it.
Barry Levinson’s directorial debut parks us in Baltimore, 1959, in that dead zone between Christmas and New Year where time goes weird. The film mostly hangs out — chats, jokes, digs, repeat — but the pressure is there. Weddings are coming, jobs are half-formed, and Eddie’s Colts quiz for his fiancée is less “cute tradition” and more “mate, what are you doing?”
The joys are in the small wars: the roast-beef sandwich stand-off, the strip-club piano scene, and a wedding toast that lands like a cuddle with a pin in it. Kevin Bacon’s Fenwick is brittle charm on legs — smiling, needling, quietly spiralling. The women are short-changed (Ellen Barkin still brings bite), which dates it.
It’s a bit shaggy and occasionally drifts, but it nails that moment when your friends are everything… right before life starts filing you into separate folders.
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