American diner
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | American diner |
| Original title | Diner |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1982 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK without |
| Rod | |
| Director | Barry Levinson |
| script | Barry Levinson |
| production | Jerry Weintraub |
| music |
Bruce Brody Ivan Král |
| camera | Peter Sova |
| cut | Stu Linder |
| occupation | |
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American Diner (dinner) is an American comedy film of Barry Levinson from the year 1982 . The film is about five friends who spend a lot of time together, stubbornly ignoring the fact that they are getting older. But time cannot be stopped.
action
In Baltimore , six friends who have known each other since high school meet once a week from Christmas to New Year's Eve 1959 in a diner , one of those typical American fast food outlets that are often open around the clock. They talk about their dreams and future plans, but the friends have changed since the high school days.
Laurence “Shrevie” Schreiber is the only one who is already married and always has a slightly melancholy streak around the corners of his mouth during discussions. His memories of his youth are in the form of his record collection on the record shelf at home. He gets very angry when his wife Beth messes up the order of his collection. Robert Sheftell, called Boogie, studies law and works as a hairdresser. To repay his gambling debts, he makes bets on his seduction skills. Edward Simmons plans to marry his fiancée as soon as she has learned enough about football. He wants to check this with a 140-question football quiz. William “Billy” Howard, who studies in New York and is only visiting Baltimore, is also thinking of getting married. But his pregnant girlfriend Barbara shows more interest in her career. Only with Fenwick, the problem case of the clique, the latent dissatisfaction discharges from time to time in macabre jokes, blind aggression or excessive alcohol consumption, for example when he fakes a car accident to his friends or beats up the crib figures of the Three Kings at Christmas time.
Reviews
In the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert compared the film's "episodic" structure to American graffiti . Some of the situations shown would seem "implausible". The film is often "very funny", to which the dialogues in particular contribute.
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film mixed “realistic time drawings” and “slightly transfigured nostalgia”, with the “rude” dialogues adding to the realism. He addresses the "problems of growing up".
In the Fischer Film Almanach from 1988, the film was assessed as follows: “Like Tin Men , Diner is set in Baltimore at the end of the 1950s, a reminiscence of the director's hometown, which does not degenerate into nostalgic whitewash, but one of the accessories gives a coherent portrait of the time for the soundtrack. "
In 1983, Roger Graf wrote in the magazine Zoom No. 1/1983 as follows: “In addition to the excellent dialogue direction, the young actors - all of them new faces - who contribute a lot to the success of the film with their subtle, realistic play. The young director has done amazing things for a newcomer in terms of acting. His film is not a reckoning with his youth, rather a nice memory with a slightly ironic wink that cannot hide the fact that there is a lot of sentimentality in this homage to the 1950s. "
Awards
Barry Levinson was nominated for an Oscar in 1983 for the script and received a nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award. He and Mickey Rourke won the Boston Society of Film Critics Award in 1983. Rourke won the National Society of Film Critics Award in 1983 . The film itself was nominated for a Golden Globe in 1983 in the category of best film - comedy or musical .
background
The film was shot in Baltimore . Its production cost was estimated at $ 5 million, and it grossed approximately $ 14.1 million in US cinemas. It ran in US cinemas from March 5, 1982; in the Federal Republic of Germany , on the other hand, it was only shown in cinemas on September 6, 1990, while it was already broadcast on November 30, 1987 in the ARD television program .
The film had a great influence on subsequent films and was for Steve Guttenberg ( Police Academy , Three Men , Another Baby ) , Daniel Stern ( Kevin at home alone ) , Timothy Daly ( The Sopranos ) and of course Mickey Rourke ( 9½ weeks) , Angel Heart ) and Kevin Bacon ( Footloose , Flatliners - Today is a beautiful day to die ) as well as for Ellen Barkin ( The Big Easy ) the start of their film career, which continues to this day. Barry Levinson ( Rain Man , Bandits! ) Also began his extremely successful career as a director with this work.
The film also includes the scene that Mickey Rourke made famous. It's a bet with his friends. The film character Boogie claims that a desirable girl who, however, reacts very reluctantly to male advances, would still take his penis in her hand. The whole thing should happen in a cinema. Both of them eat popcorn from a cardboard box that Boogie has placed on his lap. Without the young woman noticing, Boogie sticks his penis through a hole in the bottom of the box. When the girl reaches out again, she suddenly has his member in her hand. His friends quit the spectacle with a smile.
Web links
- Diners in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- American Diner at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- SL Price: Much ado about nothing . In Vanity Fair, March 2012.
Individual evidence
- ^ Review by Roger Ebert
- ↑ a b American Diner in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ a b c Meinolf Zurhorst: Mickey Rourke His films - his life . Heyne Film Library No. 32/129. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1989, pp. 42-43, 148-149
- ↑ Filming locations for dinners
- ↑ Business Data for Diner
- ↑ American Diner at vanityfair.com ( Memento from February 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ American Diner - Popcorn Scene