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"A small gem! A banquet of fast food and funny talk." - Richard Corliss, TIME
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.
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