Restaurant (1998)

User Rating:

6.0/10   

Director:

Eric Bross

Writer:

Tom Cudworth (writer)

Release Date:

24 July 1999 (Japan)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A few young waiters at a popular New Jersey restaurant are dreaming of becoming actors or otherwise getting into the artistic community. |

Plot Keywords:

Restaurant | New Jersey | Waiter | Play | Art Imitates Life

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Adrien Brody	...	Chris Calloway
Elise Neal	...	Jeanine
David Moscow	...	Reggae
Simon Baker	...	Kenny (as Simon Baker-Denny)
Catherine Kellner	...	Nancy
Malcolm-Jamal Warner	...	Steven
John Carroll Lynch	...	John English
Jesse L. Martin	...	Quincy
Sybil Temtchine	...	Lenore (as Sybil Temchen)
Vonte Sweet	...	Marcus
Michael Stoyanov	...	Ethan
Elon Gold	...	Kurt
Lori Heuring	...	Donna
Lauryn Hill	...	Leslie
Avery Waddell	...	Al-Tarique

MPAA:

Rated R for sexuality, language and drug use.

Runtime:

107 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

USA:R

Filming Locations:

Hoboken PATH Station - 40 Hudson Place, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA

Company:

Chaiken Films

Trivia:

The restaurant used in the film is now The Madison Bar & Grill.

Goofs:

Errors in geography: Jeanine and Kenny board a PATH train (a New York-New Jersey subway) in Hoboken, New Jersey, go one stop and get off at the same Hoboken station.

interesting, might have been better

As recovering restaurant workers, we looked forward to a little more reality. There were flashes of insight (like maybe the film-makers had actually worked in a restaurant), and we liked the truthfulness of the racial mix, although the racial tensions seemed a little too 1960s ... could really be that far behind?

The frustration and disappointment comes from the film being SO close to getting things right, and missing so consistently.