40 years later, Barry Levinson's 'Diner' is still a top hangout movie.
What exactly is a “hangout movie?" While it can be a little hard to define, there are a few common characteristics most hangout movies share — an emphasis on well-drawn characters over plot, a reliance on conversational dialogue to drive the action, a lightness of tone, and stories that are often about young people figuring out their lives.
It’s in that vividness and detail that you get a lot of the film’s charm, tapping into the idea that the more specific you make a story, the more universal it becomes. A huge part of this specificity is in the banter that happens between the characters while hanging out at the diner as well as in the various other shenanigans they get into.
When it was released in 1982, Diner didn’t make a huge dent in the U.S. box office, possibly due to its studio, MGM, not being terribly interested in promoting a movie full of unknowns and very little in the way of a hooky premise. Still, the film made enough of an impact to earn Barry Levinson a Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination while also setting him and the film’s stars on a course to becoming mainstays of film and TV throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s.
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