Diner
Suddenly, life was more than French fries, gravy, and girls.
Diner (1982)
Timing:
1:50 (110 min)
6.9/10
270
270
Country
Production
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Budget
$5 000 000
Revenue
$14 100 000
Director
Actors
Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Tim Daly, Ellen Barkin, Paul Reiser, Kathryn Dowling, Michael Tucker, Jessica James
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Jerry Weintraub, Mark Johnson
Operator
Peter Sova
Composer
Bruce Brody
Artist
Audition
Ellen Chenoweth
Editing
Stu Linder, Andy Blumenthal
All team (36)
All team (36)
Short description
Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved Diner. The mundane, childish, and titillating details of their lives are shared. But the golden moments pass, and the men shoulder their responsibilities, leaving the Diner behind.
What's left behind the scenes
- Michael Tucker will play the same character in Barry Levinson’s “Tin Men” (1987).
- Paul Reiser hadn't planned on participating in this film. He was simply accompanying a friend to the audition. While he was waiting for his friend, he caught someone’s eye and was asked to audition himself.
- All the scenes in the diner were filmed at the very end, after the cast and crew had gotten to know each other. All the dialogue in these scenes is a mixture of what was written in the script and improvisation.
- In search of actors for the roles of the five main characters, Barry Levinson reviewed over 600 candidates who came to the audition. The casting was organized in New York, Los Angeles, and Maryland.
- According to Barry Levinson, the scene with the football knowledge test that Eddie made his fiancée take is based on a real-life situation involving one of his cousins.
- Barry Levinson gathered the entire cast in Baltimore about a week before the start of filming, but he began rehearsing scenes with them approximately an hour before the shoot. He hoped this would bring an element of spontaneity and improvisation to the actors’ performances.
- After completing work on the film, MGM was disappointed, as they believed it would be a comedy in the style of "Porky's" (Bob Clark, 1981). They didn't want to release the film and suggested shelving it. However, the film received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
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