Tom's Restaurant - A Documentary About Everything (2014)

Tom's Restaurant in New York City: Seinfeld, Suzanne Vega, NASA, Columbia University and much more... Documentary about Tom's Restaurant, in Morningside Heights - Manhattan. Owners, clientele & pop culture references.

Director:

Gian Franco Morini

Writers:

Gian Franco Morini, Jesse McDowell (co-writer)

Stars:

Ramon Berenguer, Burton Crane, Mrs. Elfie

3 wins & 1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Ramon Berenguer	...	Self
Burton Crane	...	Self
Mrs. Elfie	...	Self
Josh Gondelman	...	Self
Ron Long	...	Self
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Patricia Maldonado	...	Self
Jesse McDowell	...	Self
Jack Moore	...	Self
Cristopher Olivier	...	Self
Shon Richards	...	Self
Bob Rose	...	Self
Gregorio Sassoli	...	Self
David Sidorsky	...	Self
Michael Valmas	...	Self

Storyline

Tom's Restaurant is a diner located at 2880 Broadway (on the corner of 112th Street) in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Frequented by artists, musicians, comedians, students and faculty of nearby Columbia University, it has been owned and operated by the Greek-American family of Minas Zoulis since the 1940s. Tom's Restaurant was the locale that inspired Suzanne Vega's 1987 song "Tom's Diner". Later, its exterior became famous worldwide thanks to the popular sitcom Seinfeld, since Jerry Seinfeld's eponymous character and his friends regularly gathered to eat and chat at the diner, de facto placing Tom's Restaurant in living rooms all over the world and in the hearts of million of people, who maybe never even crossed its doors. Until today. When President Barack Obama was a student at Columbia, he frequently used to eat at Tom's Restaurant, and Senator John McCain often ate at Tom's when he visited his daughter Meghan when she was a student at ...

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Plot Keywords:

columbia university | nasa | new york city | 

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Taglines:

New York has many hidden treasures. This documentary is dedicated to bring you some of them.

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Genres:

Documentary | Biography | Comedy | Music

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Did You Know?

Quotes

Cornel West: It's a beautiful place to be. You just see the flow of humanity come through Tom's.

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Connections

References Footloose (1984)

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Soundtracks

Tom's Trot
By Bob Rose

User Reviews

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official Site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

22 December 2014 (USA)

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$25,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Primadonna Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1