I had seen it years and years and years ago (it came out in 82), and I was nervous that it wouldn't hold up.
But, being a period piece, and being inherently steeped in nostalgia, it didn't just hold up, but got better with age.
The actors, Guttenberg, Bacon, Rourke, Reiser, and Barkin, were all so young -- their youth is almost painful to look at. Something I of course couldn't appreciate at the time because they were all older than me. But now they seem like just kids.
And that's what Diner is about, a group of boys, arrested adolescents in modern parlance, who are floundering in their young adulthood, unable to really thrive or pick up any traction with their lives, so they gravitate around each other in what has become known as a bromance.
The movie has a few plot strands, but really it's about the hanging out, the bonding, the feel of the group. Each of the characters is looking for more, perhaps, than the diner crowd, but at the moment they are content with where they are. The bittersweet thing is that the viewer knows that the eventually, sooner rather than later, life will sweep them up, that this charmed time will not last.
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