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A New Jersey bartender/playwright's (Adrien Brody) experiences with love and race influence the outcome of his play.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader 10/17/2007
The secondary characters are as well-defined as the leads. Go to Full Review
A.O. Scott New York Times 01/01/2000
3.5/5
At its best, this is a movie of unusual integrity and insight. Go to Full Review
Sam Adams Philadelphia City Paper 01/01/2000
Features impressive performances from the entire cast and successfully mixes personal drama with larger issues. Go to Full Review
Steve Simels TV Guide 10/17/2007
3/4
Brody, who has the lean-and-hungry charisma of a skinny young De Niro, turns his potentially cliched, tortured artist character into somebody from whom you'd actually want to buy a drink. Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 07/05/2005
3/5
Margaret A. McGurk Cincinnati Enquirer 10/15/2002
2.5/4
I don't know anything about the background of director Eric Bross or screenwriter Tom Cudworth, but I'm guessing at least one used to be a bartender. Go to Full Review
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08/09/2013 "A gay romp with a drunk-dialing Adrien Brody." - Having worked in the restaurant industry for quite some time, as well as being an aspiring actor familiar with Hoboken, New Jersey, I can attest to this film's realistic portrayal of an all-too-often clichéd premise of the suffering 'creative type' stuck in a seemingly haughty environment, performing menial work and engaging exceptionally ignorant people on daily basis. Unfortunately, 'Restaurant' tries too hard to be something it's not: "A thought-provoking piece on bigotry and racial inequality... Instead it serves up a uniquely somber tale about a young man struggling to make ends meet as he tires to live out his dream as a playwright, and who just happens to have a black ex-girlfriend with whom he slowly grows further and further apart from. The entire message about race, although not entirely lost, is only evident towards the very end of the film, despite being alluded to a few times randomly , and almost forcibly throughout the beginning and middle sections. (The poster gives it away, but having not seen it, you'd probably have no idea what the film is actually about). See more 02/15/2010 Restaurant supply:- At JES Restaurant Equipment We have built a reputation on providing our customers with an extensive selection of commercial restaurant products. We provide Wholesale Restaurant Equipment Commercial Residential Kitchen Supplies. See more 11/25/2009 break-ups, make-ups and some damn good food! See more 10/16/2009 interesting relations See more 07/09/2009 Malísima, malos diálogos, malo todo >_< See more 05/27/2009 surprising cast, bad movie See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A New Jersey bartender/playwright's (Adrien Brody) experiences with love and race influence the outcome of his play.
Director
Eric Bross
Producer
Eric Bross
Distributor
Palisades Pictures LLC [us], York/Maverick Entertainment
Production Co
Giv'en Films, Palisades Pictures Entertainment Group
Rating
R
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 28, 1998, Wide
Box Office (Gross USA)
$52.6K
Runtime
1h 47m
Sound Mix
Surround, Dolby
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