Restaurant

Restaurant (1999)

A few young waiters at a popular New Jersey restaurant are dreaming of becoming actors or otherwise getting into the artistic community.

Date of release
1999-07-24
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (15)
Runtime
1h 47m
Genres
Drama
Director
Eric Bross

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: New Jersey

Restaurant is a 1998 American independent drama film written by Tom Cudworth and directed by Eric Bross. The film stars Adrien Brody, Elise Neal, Catherine Kellner and Malcolm-Jamal Warner, with supporting appearances by Simon Baker and Lauryn Hill. Restaurant premiered at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival on April 17, 1998, and earned Adrien Brody an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Set in Hoboken, New Jersey, the film is a romantic dramedy that follows a group of young waiters chasing big dreams, with limited opportunities for success.

Production

Director Bross and writer Cudworth had first met while working at the same Montclair, NJ restaurant, and had long thought about making a film in such a setting. Cudworth had also been involved with an African-American woman for a long time, inspiring the main storyline.

The film was shot in 28 days in New Jersey and New York. The workplace scenes were shot in an actual Hoboken restaurant, which had just been sold and renovated. After shooting, the owners initially kept the name it was given in the film, J.T. McClure's. However, it is now known as the Madison Bar & Grill.

Lauryn Hill was originally cast as the love interest and singer Jeanine. However, when she became pregnant, she was recast as the former girlfriend Leslie.

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