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www.toxicuniverse.com - : From what I could remember, Diner was merely the bloated self-analysis of a group of chatty young men on the brink of adulthood struggling with women, sex, their cloudy futures and their sense of self-worth in a time before the sexual revolution. more...
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3/5
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efilmcritic.com - : Just a perfect example of a small movie with memorable and funny characters. Extremely well-acted and directed in a very personal fashion. So many scenes seem like conversations you may overhear in public, except they're too damn funny. more...
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5/5
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : DINER is often a very funny movie, although I laughed most freely not at the sexual pranks but at the movie's accurate ear, as it reproduced dialogue with great comic accuracy. If the movie has a weakness, however, it's that it limits itself to the faithful reproduction of the speech, clothing, cars, and mores of the late 1950s, and never quite stretches to include the humanity of the characters. For all that I recognized and sympathized with these young men and their martyred wives, girlfriends, and sex symbols, I never quite believed that they were three-dimensional. more...
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3.5/
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