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Set in the northwest section of [[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]], [[Maryland]], during the last week of 1959, ''Diner'' tells the story of a circle of male friends{{spaced ndash}}now in their early twenties{{spaced ndash}}who reunite for the wedding of one of their group. The title refers to the Hilltop Diner that was located at Reisterstown Road and Rogers Avenue, Baltimore, their late-night hangout. However, the Hilltop had been converted into a liquor store, so the location in the film is in the Canton section of Baltimore. An element of the story includes the [[Indianapolis Colts|Baltimore Colts]] winning the [[1959 NFL Championship Game]]. The [[autobiography|semi-autobiographical]] film explores the changing relationships among these friends as they become adults through what is mostly a series of [[Vignette (literature)|vignettes]] rather than a traditional narrative. Levinson encouraged [[improvisation]] among his cast to capture naturalistic camaraderie. |
Set in the northwest section of [[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]], [[Maryland]], during the last week of 1959, ''Diner'' tells the story of a circle of male friends{{spaced ndash}}now in their early twenties{{spaced ndash}}who reunite for the wedding of one of their group. The title refers to the Hilltop Diner that was located at Reisterstown Road and Rogers Avenue, Baltimore, their late-night hangout. However, the Hilltop had been converted into a liquor store, so the location in the film is in the Canton section of Baltimore. An element of the story includes the [[Indianapolis Colts|Baltimore Colts]] winning the [[1959 NFL Championship Game]]. The [[autobiography|semi-autobiographical]] film explores the changing relationships among these friends as they become adults through what is mostly a series of [[Vignette (literature)|vignettes]] rather than a traditional narrative. Levinson encouraged [[improvisation]] among his cast to capture naturalistic camaraderie. |
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It is Christmas week, 1959, in Baltimore, Maryland. A dance is being held a little outside of town. We see Modell walking up the stairs. He stops to tell his friend Boogie that their mutual friend Fenwick is breaking windows downstairs. Boogie goes to the basement to stop Fenwick from breaking the windows, then he gets Fenwick's date to ride back with Fenwick. On the way back to Baltimore, Fenwick fakes an accident. His car is turned over, it looks like he has blood on his face, and it looks as if he is dead. But it is ketchup, not blood, and then all of the guys go to the diner. The Fells Point Diner is owned by a Greek man named George, and this is the friends' hangout. Other than watching Eddie and Modell fight over a roast beef sandwich, we find out two important pieces of information: (1) Boogie has bet two thousand dollars (1959 dollars) on a basketball game which is fixed; (2) Boogie will soon be going out on a date with Carol Heathrow, and he has made bet on that date as well. Apparently, Boogie is a gambler and a ladies' man. (It is the middle of the night.) Boogie, Fenwick, and Shrevy go to pick up Billy at the train station, where Fenwick stops for coffee (before they go to the diner to have coffee, as Shrevy says). There we learn that Eddie is giving Elise a football quiz on the Baltimore Colts, and if she doesn't pass, the marriage is off. |
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2nd Day |
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At the diner we learn this: Billy is studying for a masters in business degree (probably in New York City); Boogie is working in a beauty salon as well as going to the University of Baltimore law school; and Fenwick is doing nothing. (It is early morning.) Billy goes to Eddie's house to surprise him (because Eddie doesn't know that Billy will at his wedding). Billy will be the best man, and we also learn about Billy's friend Barbara. In the kitchen, Eddie's mother refuses to make him a baloney sandwich and then threatens him with a knife. At Eddie's house, not only do we see (in his bedroom) that he is a slob, but playing around with his mother in the kitchen, we see what kind of husband he will be for Elise. (It is later morning.) |
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Shrevy is working at a TV shop. Fenwick goes there and tells Shrevy that he will be at the Strand Movie Theater that night and that Boogie has bet a couple of hundred dollars on his date with Carol Heathrow. Fenwick drops one of his gloves. He looks drunk, and Shrevy is worried about him. He says, "Are you sure you're ok, Fen?" (It is early afternoon.) |
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Billy and Eddie are shooting pool in the pool hall. Billy asks Eddie why he's getting married, and Eddie says that he has no choice because they've been dating for a long time. Then a crazy guy named Method comes up and begins reciting lines from "The Sweet Smell of Success," a movie that he has completely memorized. Method is probably a nickname inspired by a modern type of acting called "method acting." (It is early or mid afternoon.) |
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It is nighttime at a packed Strand Movie Theater. Boogie knows that he cannot win the bet, so he does something with the popcorn. Carol Heathrow is shocked and runs out of the theater. Boogie runs after her (into the ladies' bathroom) and gives her a lot of sweet talk and lies to have her believe that the incident with the popcorn was an accident. Outside the movie theater, Eddie watches Carol Heathrow walk by and says that she is death (the end), then Billy punches Willard Broxton. While walking to the car, Shrevy tells wife Beth that Billy hit Willard Broxton because of something that had happened in elementary school: the entire opposing baseball team jumped Billy. From the movie theater, Billy goes to visit Barbara. |
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In the parking lot of the diner, Bagel (because he always eats bagels) pulls down his car window and tells Boogie that Boogie's basketball team won by fourteen points- too many. Boogie now owes 2,000 dollars (1959 dollars). He is very upset. Also outside the diner, Eddie asks Shrevy whether he is happy with his marriage, and Shrevy says that his wife is great but he can't have a five-minute conversation with her. But maybe it's not that sad, because Eddie and Shrevy will "always have the diner." Inside the diner, Eddie, Billy, and Modell watch Earl eat the whole left side of the menu (that he has ordered). Modell says that Earl is not a person but "a building with feet." The boys refuse to pay Boogie any money from the Carol Heathrow bet, and then Boogie makes another bet on Carol Heathrow. Everybody except Billy bets. |
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3rd Day |
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It is very early morning, with the sun coming up. Boogie and Fenwick are driving around outside of Baltimore. Boogie sees a beautiful girl riding a horse and motions for her to stop. She stops. Boogie says that he was admiring her horse then asks, "What's your name?" She says, "Jane Chisolm, as in the Chisolm trail." |
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It is later morning. Billy is waiting outside a church, then goes inside to talk to Barbara, who tells him that she is pregnant with his child. Billy says he wants to get married, but Barbara does not think so. |
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Now in the afternoon, Fenwick is at Boogie's place. Boogie is on the phone with his mother, telling her that he's in trouble and only has $56 dollars to his name. Fenwick is in another room, watching the GE College Bowl quiz show. Fenwick knows the answers before everyone else. Fenwick is some kind of genius, like Einstein. |
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At night at Shrevy and Beth's house, Shrevy gets into an argument with Beth about his record albums, because Beth doesn't keep them in the right place, and that she never asks him things that he is really interested in (such as what's on the "flip side" of a record). Shrevy leaves, and a little later, Boogie knocks on the door. He is looking for Shrevy because Shrevy is supposed to loan him $200 dollars to pay off the bet. Beth answers the door. She is crying. |
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Fenwick is outside his brother Howard's nice house. He is asking Howard for $500 dollars, for Boogie. Here we find out that Fenwick is "irresponsible," has dropped out of college, and will not work in the family business. Brother Howard will not let him into his house. Fenwick is drunk and outside the church where he likes to go to listen to a piano player playing the blues. He sees that someone has stolen the statue of the baby Jesus from the Christmas manger. Switch to a movie theater where Eddie and Billy have gone to watch a Ingmar Bergman film at the Bergman film festival. Eddie doesn't understand the Bergman film and falls asleep, then Shrevy rushes into the movie theater and says there's and emergency: Fenwick is in the manger. |
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Shrevy, Eddie, and Billy go to the church, where they find Fenwick in his underwear, sitting in the crib where the statue of the infant Jesus had been. Shrevy, Eddie, and Billy try to get Fenwick to leave, but he is drunk and doesn't want to go. Fenwick starts to run around the manger, punching wise men, picking up sheep, and finally knocking down the manger wall. The police come and the four are arrested. |
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Shrevy, Eddie, and Billy are all bailed out from jail that night, but Fenwick's parents leave him there overnight in order to "teach him a lesson." Later at the diner, Shrevy and Billy tell Modell what had happened. Method appears from out of nowhere, and he begins reciting the same movie, but Shrevy tells him to "take a hike." At the counter of the diner, Eddie tells Boogie that he is "technically" a virgin. |
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It is morning. Billy goes to see Barbara at the TV station where she works. There they argue about getting married- Billy wants to, but Barbara doesn't. |
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It is later morning. Boogie is working at the beauty salon. Beth comes in to make sure that Mr. Andre (the owner) will be able to handle doing the entire bridal party's hair the day before the wedding. Then a man named Tank comes in to see Boogie. They go outside, walk down the street, and go down below a flight of stairs. There Tank slaps Boogie around because Boogie hasn't paid the 2,000 dollars. Tank says, "Tonight!" Boogie goes back inside the beauty salon, where there is a telephone call for him. It's Carol Heathrow. She has a 102 degree temperature and will not be able to go out that night, which means that Boogie will not be able to win his Carol Heathrow bet. Boogie is between a rock and a hard place. He is desperate. He sits down on the couch and talks to Beth. There we find out that Boogie went out with Beth before she married Shrevy. They make a date for that night. |
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It is nighttime at Eddie's house. We never see Elise (in the entire film). She is answering an oral exam on the Baltimore Colts football team. She and Eddie are behind a door, and we cannot see them. Because Shrevy screws up the Alan Ameche question, Elise gets a 63 and fails the test by two points. Eddie says that "the marriage is off." While leaving Eddie's house, Shrevy grabs a ride with Fenwick and goes with him to "validate" the Heathrow bet. |
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Then we see Boogie driving with Beth in downtown Baltimore. Beth is wearing a blonde wig so that she'll look like Carol Heathrow. The idea is that Boogie will fool everyone into thinking that Beth is Carol. He will win the bet and be able to pay off Tank. That means that Shrevy is going to witness his wife with Boogie in Fenwick's apartment. Boogie leads Beth into the lobby of Fenwick's apartment, but Boogie can't go through with it, and Fenwick and Shrevy never see anything. |
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Switch to a strip joint, where we see Billy and Eddie talking about Ruth Ray and when they were in eighth grade. |
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Switch to outside the Fells Point Diner, where Fenwick and Shrevy are waiting for Boogie in order to tell Boogie that he shouldn't go inside the diner because Tank is inside. But Boogie says that "the cards have been dealt" and he goes inside, but before he gets inside, Tank comes out. Like a miracle, Boogie has been saved because Bagel has paid off his tab. Tank says, "shame, shame," and Boogie hits him in the stomach. Boogie goes into the diner and thanks Bagel. Bagel says that Boogie's mother had called him and that he paid off the bet "out of respect" for Boogie's dead father. Boogie tells Bagel that he agrees his mother that he is wasting his time in law school. It is then agreed that Boogie will work with Bagel in the home-improvement business until Boogie pays off the $2,000 that he now owes Bagel. |
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Switch back to the strip joint. Eddie and Shrevy are getting drunk. The music is too slow. Billy wants to "pick up the beat," so he goes up to the piano. First, the song is classical, but the Billy belts out a rocking tune, and the drummer and sax man join him. Eddie dances on top of the bar. This is the traditional send-off, it seems, for a man soon to get married. After the strip joint closes, Eddie and Billy take the dancer to the famous Little Tavern burger joint. There Eddie tells the dancer that he is getting married. It is very late night. |
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It is very early morning. Boogie, now a completely free and happy man, is riding a horse so that he can meet Jane Chisolm. He rides up to her and says, "I often find the mornings a nice time to ride," and they ride around together. Boogie has a date for Eddie's wedding. We are in the synagogue, which is decked out in Baltimore Colts colors (blue and white). The organist is playing music. It is nice. It is the Baltimore Colts' marching song. Eddie gets married, and Billy, Shrevy, Fenwick, and Boogie are his ushers. We never see Elise's face. At the reception, we see that everything is going to work out alright for the boys: Boogie is a free man again and has a new girl; Shrevy tells Beth that he made reservations for them in the Pocono Mountains (so it seems that they will be ok); Fenwick says that he's going to travel around Europe; and Eddie is now married. We don't know exactly what is going to happen to Billy, but he kisses Barbara on the forehead and we sense that they will be alright. |
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We see Earl at the buffet table. He is holding a very small plate. A terrible singer sings "Blue Moon," then Modell gets up to make a speech. During the speech, Elise (we never see her face) throws the bouquet of flowers over her head. The bouquet slips through many hands until it finally lands in the middle of the table where the five friends are. Eddie, Billy, Shrevy, Fenwick, and Boogie look ironically at the bouquet, then the picture freezes and turns to black. I guess their childhood is really over now, and they must go out and face the real world. |
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==Cast== |
==Cast== |
Revision as of 05:45, 28 July 2013
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Directed by | Barry Levinson |
Written by | Barry Levinson |
Produced by | Jerry Weintraub |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Peter Sova |
Edited by | Stu Linder |
Music by | Bruce Brody Ivan Kral |
Distributed by | MGM |
Release date | March 5, 1982 |
Running time | 110 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $5 million |
Box office | $14,099,953 (United States)[1] |
Diner is a 1982 comedy-drama film written and directed by Barry Levinson. Levinson's screen directing debut, Diner is the first in his "Baltimore films" which, in addition, include the subsequent Tin Men (1987), Avalon (1990) and Liberty Heights (1999).
Plot
Set in the northwest section of Baltimore, Maryland, during the last week of 1959, Diner tells the story of a circle of male friends – now in their early twenties – who reunite for the wedding of one of their group. The title refers to the Hilltop Diner that was located at Reisterstown Road and Rogers Avenue, Baltimore, their late-night hangout. However, the Hilltop had been converted into a liquor store, so the location in the film is in the Canton section of Baltimore. An element of the story includes the Baltimore Colts winning the 1959 NFL Championship Game. The semi-autobiographical film explores the changing relationships among these friends as they become adults through what is mostly a series of vignettes rather than a traditional narrative. Levinson encouraged improvisation among his cast to capture naturalistic camaraderie.
1st Day
It is Christmas week, 1959, in Baltimore, Maryland. A dance is being held a little outside of town. We see Modell walking up the stairs. He stops to tell his friend Boogie that their mutual friend Fenwick is breaking windows downstairs. Boogie goes to the basement to stop Fenwick from breaking the windows, then he gets Fenwick's date to ride back with Fenwick. On the way back to Baltimore, Fenwick fakes an accident. His car is turned over, it looks like he has blood on his face, and it looks as if he is dead. But it is ketchup, not blood, and then all of the guys go to the diner. The Fells Point Diner is owned by a Greek man named George, and this is the friends' hangout. Other than watching Eddie and Modell fight over a roast beef sandwich, we find out two important pieces of information: (1) Boogie has bet two thousand dollars (1959 dollars) on a basketball game which is fixed; (2) Boogie will soon be going out on a date with Carol Heathrow, and he has made bet on that date as well. Apparently, Boogie is a gambler and a ladies' man. (It is the middle of the night.) Boogie, Fenwick, and Shrevy go to pick up Billy at the train station, where Fenwick stops for coffee (before they go to the diner to have coffee, as Shrevy says). There we learn that Eddie is giving Elise a football quiz on the Baltimore Colts, and if she doesn't pass, the marriage is off.
2nd Day
At the diner we learn this: Billy is studying for a masters in business degree (probably in New York City); Boogie is working in a beauty salon as well as going to the University of Baltimore law school; and Fenwick is doing nothing. (It is early morning.) Billy goes to Eddie's house to surprise him (because Eddie doesn't know that Billy will at his wedding). Billy will be the best man, and we also learn about Billy's friend Barbara. In the kitchen, Eddie's mother refuses to make him a baloney sandwich and then threatens him with a knife. At Eddie's house, not only do we see (in his bedroom) that he is a slob, but playing around with his mother in the kitchen, we see what kind of husband he will be for Elise. (It is later morning.)
Shrevy is working at a TV shop. Fenwick goes there and tells Shrevy that he will be at the Strand Movie Theater that night and that Boogie has bet a couple of hundred dollars on his date with Carol Heathrow. Fenwick drops one of his gloves. He looks drunk, and Shrevy is worried about him. He says, "Are you sure you're ok, Fen?" (It is early afternoon.)
Billy and Eddie are shooting pool in the pool hall. Billy asks Eddie why he's getting married, and Eddie says that he has no choice because they've been dating for a long time. Then a crazy guy named Method comes up and begins reciting lines from "The Sweet Smell of Success," a movie that he has completely memorized. Method is probably a nickname inspired by a modern type of acting called "method acting." (It is early or mid afternoon.)
It is nighttime at a packed Strand Movie Theater. Boogie knows that he cannot win the bet, so he does something with the popcorn. Carol Heathrow is shocked and runs out of the theater. Boogie runs after her (into the ladies' bathroom) and gives her a lot of sweet talk and lies to have her believe that the incident with the popcorn was an accident. Outside the movie theater, Eddie watches Carol Heathrow walk by and says that she is death (the end), then Billy punches Willard Broxton. While walking to the car, Shrevy tells wife Beth that Billy hit Willard Broxton because of something that had happened in elementary school: the entire opposing baseball team jumped Billy. From the movie theater, Billy goes to visit Barbara.
In the parking lot of the diner, Bagel (because he always eats bagels) pulls down his car window and tells Boogie that Boogie's basketball team won by fourteen points- too many. Boogie now owes 2,000 dollars (1959 dollars). He is very upset. Also outside the diner, Eddie asks Shrevy whether he is happy with his marriage, and Shrevy says that his wife is great but he can't have a five-minute conversation with her. But maybe it's not that sad, because Eddie and Shrevy will "always have the diner." Inside the diner, Eddie, Billy, and Modell watch Earl eat the whole left side of the menu (that he has ordered). Modell says that Earl is not a person but "a building with feet." The boys refuse to pay Boogie any money from the Carol Heathrow bet, and then Boogie makes another bet on Carol Heathrow. Everybody except Billy bets.
3rd Day
It is very early morning, with the sun coming up. Boogie and Fenwick are driving around outside of Baltimore. Boogie sees a beautiful girl riding a horse and motions for her to stop. She stops. Boogie says that he was admiring her horse then asks, "What's your name?" She says, "Jane Chisolm, as in the Chisolm trail."
It is later morning. Billy is waiting outside a church, then goes inside to talk to Barbara, who tells him that she is pregnant with his child. Billy says he wants to get married, but Barbara does not think so.
Now in the afternoon, Fenwick is at Boogie's place. Boogie is on the phone with his mother, telling her that he's in trouble and only has $56 dollars to his name. Fenwick is in another room, watching the GE College Bowl quiz show. Fenwick knows the answers before everyone else. Fenwick is some kind of genius, like Einstein.
At night at Shrevy and Beth's house, Shrevy gets into an argument with Beth about his record albums, because Beth doesn't keep them in the right place, and that she never asks him things that he is really interested in (such as what's on the "flip side" of a record). Shrevy leaves, and a little later, Boogie knocks on the door. He is looking for Shrevy because Shrevy is supposed to loan him $200 dollars to pay off the bet. Beth answers the door. She is crying.
Fenwick is outside his brother Howard's nice house. He is asking Howard for $500 dollars, for Boogie. Here we find out that Fenwick is "irresponsible," has dropped out of college, and will not work in the family business. Brother Howard will not let him into his house. Fenwick is drunk and outside the church where he likes to go to listen to a piano player playing the blues. He sees that someone has stolen the statue of the baby Jesus from the Christmas manger. Switch to a movie theater where Eddie and Billy have gone to watch a Ingmar Bergman film at the Bergman film festival. Eddie doesn't understand the Bergman film and falls asleep, then Shrevy rushes into the movie theater and says there's and emergency: Fenwick is in the manger.
Shrevy, Eddie, and Billy go to the church, where they find Fenwick in his underwear, sitting in the crib where the statue of the infant Jesus had been. Shrevy, Eddie, and Billy try to get Fenwick to leave, but he is drunk and doesn't want to go. Fenwick starts to run around the manger, punching wise men, picking up sheep, and finally knocking down the manger wall. The police come and the four are arrested.
Shrevy, Eddie, and Billy are all bailed out from jail that night, but Fenwick's parents leave him there overnight in order to "teach him a lesson." Later at the diner, Shrevy and Billy tell Modell what had happened. Method appears from out of nowhere, and he begins reciting the same movie, but Shrevy tells him to "take a hike." At the counter of the diner, Eddie tells Boogie that he is "technically" a virgin.
4th Day
It is morning. Billy goes to see Barbara at the TV station where she works. There they argue about getting married- Billy wants to, but Barbara doesn't.
It is later morning. Boogie is working at the beauty salon. Beth comes in to make sure that Mr. Andre (the owner) will be able to handle doing the entire bridal party's hair the day before the wedding. Then a man named Tank comes in to see Boogie. They go outside, walk down the street, and go down below a flight of stairs. There Tank slaps Boogie around because Boogie hasn't paid the 2,000 dollars. Tank says, "Tonight!" Boogie goes back inside the beauty salon, where there is a telephone call for him. It's Carol Heathrow. She has a 102 degree temperature and will not be able to go out that night, which means that Boogie will not be able to win his Carol Heathrow bet. Boogie is between a rock and a hard place. He is desperate. He sits down on the couch and talks to Beth. There we find out that Boogie went out with Beth before she married Shrevy. They make a date for that night.
It is nighttime at Eddie's house. We never see Elise (in the entire film). She is answering an oral exam on the Baltimore Colts football team. She and Eddie are behind a door, and we cannot see them. Because Shrevy screws up the Alan Ameche question, Elise gets a 63 and fails the test by two points. Eddie says that "the marriage is off." While leaving Eddie's house, Shrevy grabs a ride with Fenwick and goes with him to "validate" the Heathrow bet.
Then we see Boogie driving with Beth in downtown Baltimore. Beth is wearing a blonde wig so that she'll look like Carol Heathrow. The idea is that Boogie will fool everyone into thinking that Beth is Carol. He will win the bet and be able to pay off Tank. That means that Shrevy is going to witness his wife with Boogie in Fenwick's apartment. Boogie leads Beth into the lobby of Fenwick's apartment, but Boogie can't go through with it, and Fenwick and Shrevy never see anything.
Switch to a strip joint, where we see Billy and Eddie talking about Ruth Ray and when they were in eighth grade.
Switch to outside the Fells Point Diner, where Fenwick and Shrevy are waiting for Boogie in order to tell Boogie that he shouldn't go inside the diner because Tank is inside. But Boogie says that "the cards have been dealt" and he goes inside, but before he gets inside, Tank comes out. Like a miracle, Boogie has been saved because Bagel has paid off his tab. Tank says, "shame, shame," and Boogie hits him in the stomach. Boogie goes into the diner and thanks Bagel. Bagel says that Boogie's mother had called him and that he paid off the bet "out of respect" for Boogie's dead father. Boogie tells Bagel that he agrees his mother that he is wasting his time in law school. It is then agreed that Boogie will work with Bagel in the home-improvement business until Boogie pays off the $2,000 that he now owes Bagel.
Switch back to the strip joint. Eddie and Shrevy are getting drunk. The music is too slow. Billy wants to "pick up the beat," so he goes up to the piano. First, the song is classical, but the Billy belts out a rocking tune, and the drummer and sax man join him. Eddie dances on top of the bar. This is the traditional send-off, it seems, for a man soon to get married. After the strip joint closes, Eddie and Billy take the dancer to the famous Little Tavern burger joint. There Eddie tells the dancer that he is getting married. It is very late night.
5th Day
It is very early morning. Boogie, now a completely free and happy man, is riding a horse so that he can meet Jane Chisolm. He rides up to her and says, "I often find the mornings a nice time to ride," and they ride around together. Boogie has a date for Eddie's wedding. We are in the synagogue, which is decked out in Baltimore Colts colors (blue and white). The organist is playing music. It is nice. It is the Baltimore Colts' marching song. Eddie gets married, and Billy, Shrevy, Fenwick, and Boogie are his ushers. We never see Elise's face. At the reception, we see that everything is going to work out alright for the boys: Boogie is a free man again and has a new girl; Shrevy tells Beth that he made reservations for them in the Pocono Mountains (so it seems that they will be ok); Fenwick says that he's going to travel around Europe; and Eddie is now married. We don't know exactly what is going to happen to Billy, but he kisses Barbara on the forehead and we sense that they will be alright.
We see Earl at the buffet table. He is holding a very small plate. A terrible singer sings "Blue Moon," then Modell gets up to make a speech. During the speech, Elise (we never see her face) throws the bouquet of flowers over her head. The bouquet slips through many hands until it finally lands in the middle of the table where the five friends are. Eddie, Billy, Shrevy, Fenwick, and Boogie look ironically at the bouquet, then the picture freezes and turns to black. I guess their childhood is really over now, and they must go out and face the real world.
Cast
- Steve Guttenberg as Edward "Eddie" Simmons
- Daniel Stern as Laurence "Shrevie" Schreiber
- Mickey Rourke as Robert "Boogie" Sheftell
- Kevin Bacon as Timothy "Fen" Fenwick Jr.
- Tim Daly as William "Billy" Howard
- Ellen Barkin as Shrevie's wife, Beth Schreiber
- Paul Reiser as Modell
- Kathryn Dowling as Barbara
- Michael Tucker as Bagel
- Jessica James as Eddie's mom, Mrs Simmons
- Colette Blonigan as Carol Heathrow
- Kelle Kipp as Diane
- Clement Fowler as Eddie's dad, Mr Simmons
- Claudia Cron as Jane Chisholm
This was the first credited feature film role for Daly, Barkin and Reiser.
Adaptations
The film inspired a 1983 CBS television pilot written and directed by Levinson. Mike Binder starred as Eddie, Paul Reiser returned as Modell, Michael Madsen took over as Boogie and James Spader was Fenwick.
A stage musical, with the book by Levinson and music by Sheryl Crow is being prepared, with plans for a Broadway opening in Spring 2013. Kathleen Marshall is the director and choreographer.[2] A "creative workshop" reading was held in December 2011, directed by Kathleen Marshall.[3][4] A previously announced premiere at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco in October 2012 to November 2012 was cancelled. Instead, the musical will have a staged workshop in New York and then is expected to open on Broadway on April 10, 2013. The producer said, "the producers and creative team of 'Diner' embarked on an exploratory exercise to determine if the show would play as effectively in a theatre with a capacity no larger than 1,100 seats, for which there is greater opportunity. Holding themselves to uncompromising standards they happily discovered that their answer was 'yes.'"[5]
Crew
- Costume Design: Gloria Gresham
Reception
The film maintains a 96% "Fresh" rating on review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes.[6] It is ranked #57 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Laughs list. Levinson also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
References
- ^ "Diner (1982) - Weekend Box Office Results". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2009-05-19.
- ^ Bacalzo, Dan. "Sheryl Crow and Barry Levinson's Diner Musical to Debut on Broadway in 2013", TheaterMania.com, March 20, 2012
- ^ "'Diner' closer to stage". New York Post. January 11, 2012. Retrieved January 14, 2012.
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(help) - ^ Fleming, M. "Barry Levinson Books Diner For Broadway Bow, Sheryl Crow To Write Music". Deadline.com, September 20, 2011
- ^ Jones, Kenneth. "Musical 'Diner' Will Open on Broadway April 10, 2013, Following Fall Workshop; Expect an Intimate Show". Playbill, August 3, 2012
- ^ Diner, Movie Reviews. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved April 1, 2013.
External links
- Diner at IMDb
- Diner (1982) at Rotten Tomatoes