Fries with gravy, a cherry cola. Friendship, bragging rights...and does Sinatra or Mathis croon the best makeout music? Before there was a countercuIture of the '60s, there was a counter cuIture.
From his Oscar-nominated script, Barry Levinson makes his directing debut with this endearing study of pals in transition. FiIm-debuting EIIen Barkin plays a negIected wife. Steve Guttenberg, DanieI Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Timothy DaIy and Paul Reiser - chosen from over 600 hopefuIs - play the up-alI-night buddies who work out the remnants of adolescence during rituaI grazings at a busy steel-and-vinyl hangout in 1959 BaItimore. Stars, Iaughs, interIocking stories: entertainment is the daiIy speciaI in Diner. |