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Title: Diner (1982)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Steve Guttenberg | ... | Edward 'Eddie' Simmons | |
| Daniel Stern | ... | Laurence 'Shrevie' Schreiber | |
| Mickey Rourke | ... | Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell | |
| Kevin Bacon | ... | Timothy Fenwick Jr. | |
| Tim Daly | ... | William 'Billy' Howard (as Timothy Daly) | |
| Ellen Barkin | ... | Beth Schreiber | |
| Paul Reiser | ... | Modell | |
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Kathryn Dowling | ... | Barbara |
| Michael Tucker | ... | Bagel | |
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Jessica James | ... | Mrs. Simmons |
| Colette Blonigan | ... | Carol Heathrow | |
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Kelle Kipp | ... | Diane |
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John Aquino | ... | Tank |
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Richard Pierson | ... | David Frazer |
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Claudia Cron | ... | Jane Chisholm |
Early twenty-something Baltimoreans Eddie, Shrevie, Boogie, Billy, Fenwick and Modell have been friends since they were kids, and the center of their lives has been and still is the Fells Point Diner. In the last week of 1959, Baltimore Colts fanatic Eddie is scheduled to marry Elyse on New Year's Eve, but might call it off if she doesn't pass his Colts quiz on the 29th. Inexperienced Eddie turns to the only other married one of their bunch, electronics salesman and music aficionado Shrevie, for advice, but Shrevie might not be the best marriage advisor since he doesn't yet realize he probably married his wife Beth for the wrong reasons. Beth has lost her sense of identity, is unhappy in her marriage, and contemplates having an affair with someone who provides what she believes is a sympathetic shoulder. Hairdresser and law school student Boogie is the player of the bunch and has major financial problems because of his quest for the fast buck. Generally strait-laced Billy, Eddie's ... Written by Huggo
Diner is funny, misogynistic and cool.
We all grow up at some point between our late teens and mid 20s. The characters in Diner aren't there yet; but they are careening towards it very fast. They take breaks to swerve off the road and stop at the local diner hoping to hold on to a life of irresponsibility, immaturity and silliness.
What I love best about this film is not the main characters (who are all incredibly funny) but the bit characters. From the guy spouting off the dialogue from "Sweet Smell of Success" to Earl who eats everything from the entire left side of menu to Bagel who's looking out for Boogie to Eddie's Mom who threatens to kill Eddie with a cooking knife in one of the films funniest moment to the thick accented owner of the Fells Point Diner; you can see that the glue that holds the main characters together is everyone and everything from their Baltimore neighborhood.
This movie has great dialogue (its certainly more quote-worthy than "Sweet Smell of Successs") and it emulates a lot of what men do at this point in life --- obsessing about sports, music, and girls and defending your immaturity as "its a smile"