Diner

When people think of the 50's people often think of teenagers.  But what about the slightly older people and what they went through.  Well for me Diner is a great example of that.  The film stars, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Timothy Daly, Daniel Stern, Paul Reiser and Steve Guttenberg.  The movie has a loose-threaded story of a group of Baltimore boys who hang out at the local diner and are waiting for the wedding of one of the boys.  The others have to deal with what the married life is really like, unplanned pregnancy, alcoholism, and gambling addictions.  Yes there is quests for love in this movie. They each have their own life and own story which are told separately but the stories often interact with each other.  This movie is a great example of a coming-of-age piece.  Many of the characters are moving out of their college life-style and into their proper adult life-style.  

This movie helped spark many career opportunities for the actors and it's director  Barry Levinson.  The movie had rave reviews and achieved an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.  The movie inspired a television pilot and an upcoming musical adaption that will see Broadway in the spring of 2013.