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Bookmark this pageDiner (1982)
Director: Barry Levinson
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From Time Out Film Guide
Directing from his own script, Levinson revels in detailed observation in this rites-of-passage movie about a college student returning home to Baltimore for the Christmas holidays in 1959, and picking up with the old gang as they try to fend off adulthood and marriage by hanging out at the local diner and talking about football, women, cars and rock'n'roll (Stern is particularly fine as the R&B buff, memorising record label serial numbers with religious awe). Not a lot to it, but the sense of period is acute, the script witty without falling into the crude pitfalls that beset other adolescent comedies, and the performances are spot-on.Author: GA
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- Ray Hyland said...
- Posted on Mar 28 2011 23:29 The competition between Bacon and Guttenburg in the over acting stakes here is off the charts, truly singing for their suppers. It hasn't aged well at all, light indulgent material from a director who would go on to far better thngs.
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Cast & crew
Director: Barry Levinson
Producer: Jerry Weintraub
Cast: Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Timothy Daly, Ellen Barkin, Paul Reiser, Kathryn Dowling full cast
Duration: 110 mins
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