Two women, one diner, infinite cups of coffee — and a friendship that'll wreck you.
UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A drama about two night shift diner workers whose care for each other transcends the minutia. Bad tips, argumentative customers, and the long hours behind the counter foster a profound sense of solidarity between these two women.
Acting
Doane and Wilder feel like they've worked together for years.
Direction
Richardson captures diner life with documentary precision.
Production
UCLA student film that punches way above its weight.
Director
Nancy Richardson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of the few 1980s films centering working-class women's interior lives without romantic plots.
Preserved by UCLA Archive — this almost disappeared, and honestly? That would've been criminal.
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