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Diner

Suddenly, life was more than French fries, gravy, and girls.

1982 · 1h 50m · R Comedy, Drama
Directed by Barry Levinson

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Overview

Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved Diner. The mundane, childish, and titillating details of their lives are shared. But the golden moments pass, and the men shoulder their responsibilities, leaving the Diner behind.

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92%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Levinson's dialogue feels fresh and improvised, yet it hits its mark every time, and the performances he gets are complex and original.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh

The film is wonderfully cast and played.

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Rotten

For all his painstaking accuracy, Levinson has also concocted a dark and depressing period story devoid of a single person without a major problem or character flaw.

Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh

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.

Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh

Diner is often a very funny movie, although I laughed most freely not at the sexual pranks but at the movie's accurate ear, as it reproduced dialogue with great comic accuracy.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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