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Diner

Cast

Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon View All

Crew

Barry Levinson (Screenplay), Barry Levinson (Director) View All

Release: Apr. 2nd, 1982

Runtime: 1 hour, 50 minutes

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.

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Gideon58
Barry Levinson would eventually win an Oscar for directing 1988's Best Picture Rain Man, but the guy actually put himself on the map six years earlier with a gem from 1982, a great year in cinema, called Diner, a deliciously humorous slice of life coming of age story that looks at that period betwee....

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