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Not the right actors
James Spader was supposed to be in the last season of DINER. That would be my only reason for buying it. He is certainly not in this one! So where is he????!!!
Are there no Diner videos or DVDs with James Spader?

Underrated '80s coming of age flick
I have some older friends that love the Brat Pack movies because they came of age in the 80s when they were popular. I however came of age in the early 90s, and though I've seen the movies I can't fathom why the Breakfast Club is so great. Diner is a different story. I loved this movie. And of the 80s movies, I think it's one of the most underrated when we look back on that great decade of big hair, Reagan, and movie flicks that are of the period. Of course, I never liked or could understand why Reagan was so great either. But back to Diner, for someone like Kevin Bacon who has gone on to fame with Mystic River and other movies, Paul Reiser of Mad About You and Daniel Stern of the Wonder Years to name a few, its interesting to see where they came from. Even more, while the Brat Pack members of Breakfast Club type movies, with the exception of Demi Moore and Emilo Estevez all burned out, the fact that the Diner actors still shine brightly,by contrast,if sporadically, I think says alot about the film itself and the acting. Tim Daly of Wings and Paul Reiser of Mad About You in 90s tv are really recent when you get right down to it. Again, the acting is great, the plots like the dick in the popcorn or the football quiz are wonderful insights into how guys think. And I like them even more as this cuts to the stereotype of being a guy but the movie itself is more of a thinking man's guy flick. I think that's why I like it. As I'm a thinking man. Exchanging football for History, I could see myself as an Eddie character ,and for a time and indeed sometimes now, I classify stuff like Shreibie, though there's no woman to heckle like Stern does. Its that type of transcendant quality that makes the film great. Eddie's marriage,and I'm not sure if this is 50s behavoir or not, to his wife to be and the fact that Eddie still lives with his parents I think is an interesting plot line into how these guys think. Though it should be said, back then, parents slept in seperate beds, so it could be natural time period peice info while exercising the view of the character as well. The DVD Diner I recently watched and I liked that. I think it has a lot of good features. There's interviews from the main characters as well as secondary characters, the director himself, the trailer of Diner, the "Baltimore films" catalog, and another trailor this time for I think it was Liberty Heights. While either VHS or DVD is good in itself for the movie, I think the DVD is the better of the two.

No Collection is Complete Without One...
Barry Levinson's Diner is a rich panoramic snapshot of a time, people and place that's treasured by those of us who lived through that period and had paralell experiences. He's a master of his craft and so are all that contributed to this work.

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