The movie starts off with a lot of kick, but it slows down when everyone gets to the Sunrise Diner. Naturally, it's important and I imagine very difficult to keep it interesting with pretty much one location, and acting and dialogue, especially Eric Roberts (Bob Zany is also fun to watch as a terribly insecure husband) keep you tuned in.
There are some flashbacks thrown in of Eddie the fry cook's war time in the Middle East, and Sheila, the waitress, gets into a scuffle with her husband who stops by to leech money from her. Add a troubled couple robbing people -- it is all adds up to people getting desperate and perhaps willing to make a decision / deal that seems great at first but will yield tiresome sorrow in due, due time.
The most troubled but trying-to-tough-it-out, and the one we've come to care about the most (or second most at least) is the one who gets placed in the middle. And so important decisions are forced to be made.
Decent little film.
6 out of 10.
There are some flashbacks thrown in of Eddie the fry cook's war time in the Middle East, and Sheila, the waitress, gets into a scuffle with her husband who stops by to leech money from her. Add a troubled couple robbing people -- it is all adds up to people getting desperate and perhaps willing to make a decision / deal that seems great at first but will yield tiresome sorrow in due, due time.
The most troubled but trying-to-tough-it-out, and the one we've come to care about the most (or second most at least) is the one who gets placed in the middle. And so important decisions are forced to be made.
Decent little film.
6 out of 10.