"Ethnic Divides"
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What You Need To Know:
The actors perform well in RESTAURANT, which is also nicely photographed. Despite the simple-sounding main story, the ensemble cast plays important roles that help flesh out all the characters. This is crucial in holding the interest of viewers because, although the movie displays moral elements regarding ethnic issues, it contains a humanist worldview, sexually immoral characters, strong foul language, and scenes appearing to advocate marijuana use. Cleaning up these problems and establishing a stronger, less contrived narrative would have made a much better movie.
Content:
(HH, PaPa, Ab, B, C, LLL, V, SS, NN, AA, DDD, M) Humanist worldview with pagan elements, a statement against God by the lead character, who later repeats part of Psalm 23 while a preacher reads the passage, some moral elements regarding ethnic conflicts, & preacher refers to Jesus Christ & His resurrection during funeral scene; 114 obscenities, 12 profanities, some racial epithets, some sexual references, & an obscene gesture; some fighting & an implied murder (only the gunfire is shown); depicted oral sex, implied fornication, references to man “deflowering” religious virgin who then sleeps with his best friend because he does not want to marry her yet, & unwed pregnancy; upper male nudity in sexual context; alcohol use & drunkenness; smoking & several scenes advocating marijuana use; and, betrayal, religious woman backslides & racism exposed & rebuked.
More Detail:
RESTAURANT is a well-made low-budget drama about interracial affairs (though there really is no such thing as “race”).
In the movie, a young white-skinned screenwriter named Chris, working as a bartender, has problems forgetting a past affair with a black-skinned woman when he develops a romantic relationship with another black waitress named Jeannine. Adrien Brody of LIBERTY HEIGHTS plays Chris. Elise Neal plays Jeannine, who falls for Chris when he puts his job on the line for a black co-worker played by Malcolm-Jamal Warner from TV’s old COSBY show. A tragedy changes their relationship and reveals some uncomfortable truths about ethnic differences in America.
The actors perform well in RESTAURANT, which is also nicely photographed. Despite the simple-sounding main story, the ensemble cast plays important roles that help flesh out all the characters. This is crucial in holding the interest of viewers because, although the movie displays moral elements regarding the issue of racism, it contains a humanist worldview, sexually immoral characters, strong foul language, and scenes appearing to advocate marijuana use. Cleaning up these problems and establishing a stronger, less contrived narrative would have made a much better movie.
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