Diner

…made his directorial debut with Diner (1982), a coming-of-age story that was the first of several movies set in his native city, Baltimore, Maryland. He was again nominated for an Oscar, for his screenplay for Diner. He continued to earn acclaim with such films as The Natural (1984), which starred…

…also appeared in Barry Levinson’s Diner, the story of a group of friends in Baltimore that became a cult classic and helped launch Bacon’s career, along with those of Mickey Rourke, Steve Guttenberg, and Daniel Stern. The next year Bacon had a prominent role in Enormous Changes at the Last…