Restaurant Movie Review 1998

Would-be showbiz types all work at the same swanky New Jersey restaurant while exploring their relationships and ambitions. Recovering alcoholic and aspiring playwright Chris (Brody) is still carrying a torch for ex-girlfriend, Leslie (Hill) who slept with actor/co-worker Kenny (Baker), who's been cast in Chris' new play, much to his dismay. Meanwhile, Chris is trying a new romance with singer/waitress Jeanine (Neal). Although race doesn't seem to be a problem in personal relations (Chris is white, both his girlfriends are black), it starts to raise ugly problems at work (and change the tenor of the movie).

Distribution

York Entertainment, 4565 Sherman Oaks Ave., Sherman Oaks, CA 91403, Phone: (818)788-4050, Toll-free: 800-84-MOVIE, Fax: (818)788-4011, Email: york@yorkentertainment.com, URL: http://www.yorkentertainment.com

Available on DVD
Running time 107 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Bar & Grill, Interracial Affairs, Writers, Waiters & Waitresses

Screenplay

Tom Cudworth

Cast

Adrien Brody, Elise Neal, David Moscow, Simon Baker, Catherine Kellner, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Lauryn Hill, John Carroll Lynch, Sybil Temchen, Vonte Sweet, Michael Stoyanov

Cinematography

Horacio Marquinez

Director

Eric Bross

Music

Theodore Shapiro