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Restaurant

Play trailer Poster for Restaurant R,  1998,  1h 47m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 77% 13 Reviews Tomatometer 40% 500+ Ratings Popcornmeter
77% Tomatometer 13 Reviews 40% Popcornmeter 500+ Ratings
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 Oct 17, 2007
The secondary characters are as well-defined as the leads. Go to Full Review
Wesley Morris San Francisco Examiner Jan 1, 2000
2.5/4
Restaurant is like an hour long TV drama caught somewhere between Showtime and WB. Go to Full Review
Amy Taubin Village Voice Jan 1, 2000
Attempting to ratchet up tension, Bross relies on forced crosscutting and stagey clichs. Go to Full Review
Steve Simels TV Guide Oct 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 Jul 5, 2005
3/5
Margaret A. McGurk Cincinnati Enquirer Oct 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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Cast & Crew

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Eric Bross

Director

Adrien Brody

Chris Calloway

Elise Neal

Jeanine

David Moscow

Reggae

Simon Baker

Kenny

Catherine Kellner

Nancy

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Restaurant

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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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