Diner (1982)

Cast

Mickey Rourke
as Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell
Kevin Bacon
as Timothy Fenwick Jr.
Daniel Stern
as Laurence 'Shrevie' Schreiber
Ellen Barkin
as Beth Schreiber

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Genres & Description

Action Comedy Drama

7.2 / 10

Early twenty-something Baltimoreans Eddie, Shrevie, Boogie, Billy, Fenwick and Modell have been friends since they were kids, where the center of their lives has been and still is the Fells Point Diner. It's the last week of 1959. Baltimore Colts fanatic Eddie is scheduled to get married to Elyse on New Year's Eve, but may call off the wedding if Elyse doesn't pass his Colts quiz which he will hold two days before the scheduled wedding. Inexperienced Eddie turns to the only other married one among the bunch, electronics salesman and music aficionado Shrevie, for advice, he who may not be the best person from who to ask advice on marriage since he doesn't yet realize that he probably got married to his wife Beth for the wrong reasons. Indeed, Beth, who has lost her sense of identity, is unhappy in their marriage, and contemplates having an affair with someone who provides what she believes is a sympathetic shoulder. Hairdresser and law school student Boogie is the player of the bunch, ...

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Comments on this trailer
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Kathi Lowe

This is a horrible trailer for a terrific movie. - @Thursday, July 26, 2018 5:50 PM

JxT1957

i never heard of campbell's tomato ketchup - @Tuesday, June 12, 2018 4:51 PM

Mike McKenna

Yids - @Sunday, February 4, 2018 3:59 PM

Steve Peterson

Is it me or do Ellen Barkin and Helen Hunt kind of look alike? The squinty eyes. Beautiful. - @Tuesday, June 13, 2017 7:41 PM

Ti My

Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name.... - @Tuesday, January 10, 2017 1:52 AM

anabltc

I saw this movie yesterday, for the first time. It's very well-made, the cast is great, the nostalgic atmosphere, the music, the rhythm of the dialogues, really good. But I have a problem with the story and the characters. Was I expecting too much? All these guys are complete idiots and their lives are so meaningless that you could drop a bomb on that diner and nobody would miss them. I couldn't really identify or feel any empathy because they're all too stupid, too empty. (Except that guy whose girlfriend is pregnant and he wants to be included in her and kid's life - is that Billy? - anyway, that situation has some kind of meaning, it has past, future, some drama and consequences.) All the rest - the "dick-in-the-popcorn" creep, the destructive idiot in the manger, the records-in-the-alphabetical-order anal freak, the sports-quiz-before-marriage lazy mama's boy asshole? I guess they're supposed to be funny, but they're not. The characters of any decent sitcom have more depth and sense of purpose and the jokes are way better. Is this a "guy's movie"? It was embarrassing to watch. Guys from my high school had more brains, more soul and more sense of humour than these morons (and I mean while we were in high school). - @Wednesday, December 28, 2016 5:30 PM

goback3spaces

Most trailers are better than their movies. This movie is better than the dumb-ass trailer. - @Thursday, September 29, 2016 12:32 AM

stillhatinglukeperry

Anyone know who the voice over guy is in the trailer? - @Thursday, February 25, 2016 7:50 PM

Andy Rosenberg

Has to be the worst trailer ever of a great movie..... - @Wednesday, December 9, 2015 8:26 PM

juicyi3ig

Great Cast, Great Film - @Friday, June 5, 2015 7:25 PM

Underworld Films

I think this middle class shit is funny as fuck..... - @Friday, January 16, 2015 7:46 PM

Luci Alvarez

anyone knows where to see this movie online and with spanish subtitles? - @Sunday, June 16, 2013 4:44 PM

Brendon Borg

this is like that movie Beautiful Girls (1996) - @Sunday, May 12, 2013 10:22 AM

bbcrumbs

There are some Mongolians in the system• - @Friday, May 3, 2013 3:44 PM

nauort23

I just had to pick my ass off the floor from laughing it off--at the idea of someone being "a little more developed than the other characters, because he's married." He's certainly the most regretful and deluded among them--and glorying more in his past because his life is now shit. Yeah, I guess if that qualifies as "developed", most married people I've known fit the bill. - @Saturday, April 6, 2013 1:40 AM

Paige Cockbain

I'll hit you so hard I'll kill your whole family. - @Sunday, March 31, 2013 4:18 PM

Gabriel Lewis

While I love Mickey Rourke, I think my favorite is Daniel Stern. He's a little more developed than the other characters, because he's married. - @Friday, March 15, 2013 10:39 PM

Dan Fletcher

The narrator's dialogue couldn't have been worse. - @Wednesday, March 13, 2013 2:12 AM

John Lincoln Hawk

Masterpiece - @Tuesday, February 12, 2013 1:13 AM

David Thomason

Prize for worst trailer for best movie goes to... - @Sunday, January 13, 2013 12:18 PM

Lanskee Shuru

This movie should be arrested for impersonating a movie. - @Tuesday, November 20, 2012 4:24 AM

Labyirnth II

watching this cuz of kevin bacon. hee. - @Saturday, November 17, 2012 4:47 PM

pseudohipSTAR90

Man do I love this movie! - @Saturday, September 22, 2012 1:22 AM

Pelle Svanslös

Im 25 now and have had a really unfair life so far. I still havent experienced those good years. - @Wednesday, August 1, 2012 10:18 PM

Janna Watson

Too much like "American Graffeti" - @Sunday, June 24, 2012 7:30 AM

morgaffi

"I'll hit you so hard I'll kill your whole family..." Awesome. - @Saturday, June 9, 2012 10:38 PM

Martin Martucci

"Fenwick put that sheep down!" Ha-ha. Classic. :) - @Monday, March 19, 2012 9:53 PM

LASH

Im glad the singers agree "DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB" - @Wednesday, January 11, 2012 8:23 AM

Freddie P

I love this film, especially those futile conversations in the Diner (Did Tarantino learn from this for his Pulp fiction conversations?) We (men) have all been there as young men. - @Wednesday, November 30, 2011 11:38 AM

Cobretti20001

@aviationAD3 umm no, he has had way to much plastic surgery, 25 years does not do that to your face, look at his nose, lips,hairline etc. - @Monday, November 14, 2011 11:29 PM

Cobretti20001

@dblakeney11 respect your opinion, but you think the trailer is that bad? - @Monday, November 14, 2011 11:26 PM

Martin Martucci

@algielongworth Hey, at least they're not remaking the movie. - @Sunday, October 2, 2011 6:32 PM

gymclasshero88

@KalmiaC what does the death thing mean? - @Saturday, September 10, 2011 6:28 AM

gymclasshero88

@anniexanonymous what does she is death mean. hope you still use this account.. - @Saturday, September 10, 2011 6:26 AM

Bob .Grant

Great young cast all heaing for bigger and better things. - @Monday, May 9, 2011 10:32 PM

Bob Sampron

My favorite Christmas movie. - @Saturday, November 27, 2010 9:37 PM

scott campbell

my grandfather is an extra in here - @Friday, November 26, 2010 10:53 PM

Livingston Hampton

Mickey Rourke was THE MAN with that surprise in the popcorn bucket scene! - @Friday, November 5, 2010 4:28 PM

JackKangaroo1

@ssm3141 Thank you. Our friend's name was John Petrillo. He was killed on Feb. 6, 1968 during the infamous Tet Offensive in Vietnam exactly 4 months after his 19th birthday. In an eerie bit of coincidence the random 4-digit number on his headstone at Long Island National Cemetery is 2668, which mirrors the day of his death---2/6/68. I visit the grave 2 or 3 times each year. I recall a deep conversation we once had at age 16 about plans for the future. Didn't know he had just 3 years left. - @Wednesday, June 9, 2010 2:27 AM

JackKangaroo1

@ssm3141 True and a few years ago myself and some of the guys I grew up with started meeting for dinner once a year and it's always a great time. We were kids together back in the 1950s and 60's growing up on Long Island. Now we're all in our early sixties and all the memories come flooding back. Oddly enough, what brought us back together was an internet post about an old friend who died in Vietnam. He brought us all together again. It's never too late to hook up with old friends. - @Tuesday, June 8, 2010 8:44 AM

Jason Alredge

Really great movie with great actors that display real friendship among men! - @Thursday, December 17, 2009 4:59 PM

Andrew Conicello

Great Movie!! - @Saturday, June 20, 2009 10:49 PM