Fries with gravy, a cherry cola. Friendship, bragging rights and does Sinatra or Mathis croon the best make out music? Before there was the counterculture of the '60s, there was the counter culture. From his Oscar nominated script, Barry Levinson makes his directing debut with this endearing study of pals in transition. A film debuting Ellen Barkin plays a neglected wife. Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Timothy Daly and Paul Reiser, chosen from over 600 hopefuls; play the up all night buddies who work out the remnants of adolescence during ritual grazing's at a busy steel and vinyl hangout in 1959 Baltimore. Stars, laughs, interlocking stories: entertainment is the daily special in Diner.