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Restaurant
Palisades Pictures

Restaurant reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 62 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
8.0 out of 10
based on 12 reviews
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MPAA RATING: R for sexuality, language and drug use

Starring Adrien Brody, Elise Neal, David Moscow, Simon Baker, Malcolm Jamal-Warner, and Lauryn Hill

Restaurant spins the tale of a group of young friends struggling to keep their dreams alive in Hoboken, New Jersey. The stories of these twenty-somethings intersect at J.T. McClure's, an upscale bar and grill where most of them make a living while chasing their ambitions on their days off. (Palisades Pictures)


GENRE(S): Drama  
WRITTEN BY: Tom Cudworth  
DIRECTED BY: Eric Bross  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: August 22, 2000 
Theatrical: April 7, 2000 
RUNNING TIME: 107 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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80
LA Weekly F. X. Feeney
A sharp, upbeat, well-wrought meditation on love and race that kicks the new year in movies off to a terrific start.
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75
Entertainment Weekly Bruce Fretts
Tom Cudworth's script nails the ale-drenched details of twentysomething existence.
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73
Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard
Juggles a few too many subplots, cramming in more issues than your average nightly newscast. But more often than not, this is a film to savor.
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70
Film.com Ernest Hardy
The film gets an "A" for effort, but doesn't have the courage to really get as bloody, messy and dirty as its subject matter inherently is.
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70
The New York Times A. O. Scott
It takes very good actors to convey this kind of nuance, and the cast of Restaurant does consistently splendid work.
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67
Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
Solid performances, capable visuals, and the honesty of the interracial subject matter make Restaurant stand out from the typical "I'm an artist, not really a waiter" pack.
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63
Chicago Tribune John Petrakis
Some films, oddly enough, can be too ambitious for their own good, which is the case with Restaurant.
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63
San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
If Restaurant feels like a high-caliber TV drama, it's one that tries to pack an entire season (plus pilot, plus backstory) into one episode.
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60
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Pretty familiar stuff, but the performances--by Adrien Brody, Elise Neal, Simon Baker-Denny, and Lauryn Hill--are relatively fresh and sincere.
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60
TV Guide Steve Simels
Cudworth's script gives the characters more depth than is the genre norm, and the ensemble acting is terrific.
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60
Village Voice Amy Taubin
Director Eric Bross has a smooth nonstyle that serves him well until the screenplay turns melodramatic at the end.
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20
Film.com John Hartl
It's hard to think of a single memorable line from Restaurant, even a memorably bad one.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Patrice gave it an 8:
I won't lie. This film made an impact only because of the performances by Brody and Moscow. They both add an element to the film that truly brought words on paper to life. I loved the topics being addressed, but there was a great deal trying to be covered throughout the film.

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