Diner (film)
- Steve Guttenberg: Edward " Eddie" Simmons
- Daniel Stern: Laurence " Shrevie " Schreiber
- Mickey Rourke: Robert " Boogie" Sheftell
- Kevin Bacon: Timothy Fenwick Jr.
- Timothy Daly: William "Billy" Howard
- Ellen Barkin: Beth Schreiber
- Paul Reiser: Model
- Kathryn Dowling: Barbara
- Michael Tucker: Bagel
American Diner ( Diner ) is an American comedy film directed by Barry Levinson in the year 1982. The film is about five friends who spend a lot of time to ignore that they are getting on in years. However, the time can not be stopped.
Action
In Baltimore in 1959 to meet six friends who still remember from high school, in the period from Christmas to New Year's Eve once a week at the diner, one of those typical American fast foods, which are often open around the clock. They talk about their dreams and plan for the future, but the friends have changed since the high school days.
Laurence " Shrevie " Schreiber is the only already married and has in discussions over a slightly melancholy train around the mouth. His memories of youth are in the form of a record collection in the domestic record shelf. Angrily, he is only when his wife Beth she messes up. Robert Sheftell called Boogie, studied law and works part-time as a hairdresser. To get rid of his gambling debts, he closes bets on his seduction. Edward Simmons wants to marry his fiancée, once it has sufficient knowledge about baseball. He wants to check with a 140 -question baseball quiz. Also, William " Billy" Howard, who is studying in New York and just visiting home in Baltimore, think of marriage. But his pregnant girlfriend Barbara is more interested in their careers. Only at Fenwick, the problem case, the clique, this latent dissatisfaction discharges from time to time in macabre jokes, blind aggression or excessive alcohol consumption, if he his friends pretending a car accident, for example, or beaten the Nativity figures of the Three Kings at Christmas time.
Reviews
Roger Ebert compared in the Chicago Sun-Times, the " episodic " structure of the film American Graffiti. Some of the situations shown would be " implausible " act. The film was often " very funny ", to which especially the dialogues would help.
The lexicon of international film wrote that the film mix " realistic time drawing " and " slightly glorifying Nostalgia ", with the " rude " dialogs would contribute to the realism. He thematize the " problems of growing up ."
In Fischer film almanac of 1988, the film was evaluated as follows: " As Tin Men also plays Diner late fifties in Baltimore, a reminiscence of the director to his home town, although not degenerate into nostalgic embellishment, but a of the accessories to the soundtrack coherent time portrait results. "
Roger Graf ruled in 1983 in the journal zoom No 1/1983 as follows: " Impressively, in addition to the excellent dialogue director, the young actors - all new faces - that contribute with their subtle, realistic game much to the success of the film. The young director has made regarding amazing actors guide for a newcomer. His film is not a reckoning with his youth, rather a beautiful reminder with a slightly ironic wink, but can not hide the fact that something resonates in this homage to the fifties of sentimentality. "
Awards
Barry Levinson was nominated in 1983 for the screenplay for the Oscar; He was also nominated for the 1983 Writers Guild of America Award. He and Mickey Rourke won the 1983 Boston Society of Film Critics Award. Mickey Rourke won the 1983 National Society of Film Critics Award. The film was in 1983 in the category Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
Background
The film was shot in Baltimore. Its production costs amounted to an estimated 5 million U.S. dollars. In the cinema of the United States, he played a about 14.1 million U.S. dollars. In the U.S., it was released in theaters on March 5, 1982. In the Federal Republic of Germany, he started in the cinema until 6 September 1990 while he was broadcast on television ARD already on 30 November 1987.
The film had a major influence on subsequent films and was for Steve Guttenberg ( Police Academy, Three Men and a Baby ), Daniel Stern ( Home Alone ), Timothy Daly ( The Sopranos ) and of course Mickey Rourke ( 9 ½ Weeks, Angel Heart ) and Kevin Bacon ( Footloose, Flatliners - Today is a beautiful day to die ) and Ellen Barkin (The Big Easy - the Big Easy ) entry into their film career continues to this day. Even Barry Levinson ( Rain Man, Bandits ) started with this work his highly successful career as a director.
This film also contains the scene that made known Mickey Rourke. It's about a bet with his friends. The film character Boogie claims that a popular girl, but reacts very reserved and aloof to male overtures, would take his penis in his hand. The whole thing should happen in a movie theater. Both eating popcorn out of a cardboard box, the Boogie has placed on his lap. Without that the young woman notices it, boogie sticks his penis through a hole in the bottom of the box. When the girl accesses again, it has suddenly his penis in his hand. His friends acknowledge the spectacle smirking.