Fries with gravy, a cherry cola. Friendship, bragging rights...and does Sinatra or Mathis croon the best makeout music? Before there was a counterculture of the '60s, there was a counter culture.
From his Oscar-nominated script, Barry Levinson makes his directing debut with this endearing study of paIs in transition. Film-debuting Ellen Barkin pIays a neglected wife. Steve Guttenberg, DanieI Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Timothy DaIy and Paul Reiser - chosen from over 600 hopefuIs - play the up-aII-night buddies who work out the remnants of adolescence during rituaI grazings at a busy steeI-and-vinyI hangout in 1959 Baltimore. Stars, Iaughs, interIocking stories: entertainment is the daiIy special in Diner. |