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Restaurant (1998)

 -  Drama  -  24 July 1999 (Japan)
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A few young waiters at a popular New Jersey restaurant are dreaming of becoming actors or otherwise getting into the artistic community.

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Chris Calloway
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Jeanine
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Reggae
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Kenny (as Simon Baker-Denny)
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Nancy
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John English
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Quincy
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Lenore (as Sybil Temchen)
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Marcus
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Ethan
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Kurt
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Donna
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Leslie
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Al-Tarique
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A few young waiters at a popular New Jersey restaurant are dreaming of becoming actors or otherwise getting into the artistic community.

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Rated R for sexuality, language and drug use
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24 July 1999 (Japan)  »

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$11,750 (USA) (28 January 2000)

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$65,512 (USA) (18 February 2000)
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The restaurant used in the film is now The Madison Bar & Grill. See more »

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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. See more »

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Chris Calloway: [of his father] If that bastard rolled over in his grave every time I did something he disapproved of, he'd be a fuckin' rotisserie.
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Better than average dramedy
27 April 2004 | by (fairview, nj) – See all my reviews

RESTAURANT (2000) *** Adrien Brody, Elise Neal, David Moscow,Simon Baker-Denny, Catherine Kellner, Malcom Jamal Warner, John Carroll Lynch, Jesse L. Martin, Sybil Temchen, Vonte Sweet, Lauryn Hill. Brody gives a great performance as a struggling playwright who works in a trendy Hoboken eatery as a bartender and is trying to juggle a new promising relationship with waitress/singer wanna be Neal (equally good) while coming to terms with his ex (pop superstar Hill) as well as living his life with his co-workers, each with their own charming eccentricities.

Novice filmmaker Eric Bross and screenwriter Tom Cudworth combine to make a memorable little gem of a film with funny, adroit dialogue and its strong message of racism underplayed without pandering to the audience.


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