The Spitfire Grill (1996)

Directed by

Lee David Zlotoff

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 57m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 67 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman just out of prison starts working at a small-town diner called The Spitfire Grill. She slowly earns the trust of the café's owner and the local community.

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What happens

The Spitfire Grill (also known as Care of the Spitfire Grill) is a 1996 American drama film written and directed by Lee David Zlotoff, and starring Alison Elliott, Ellen Burstyn, Marcia Gay Harden, Will Patton, Kieran Mulroney and Gailard Sartain. It tells a story of a woman who is released from prison and goes to work in a small-town café, The Spitfire Grill. It won the Audience Award at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival, prompting several distributors to enter into a bidding war in response to the positive buzz, but when finally released, critics as a whole responded less favorably than they had at Sundance. The film is the basis for the 2001 Off-Broadway musical of the same name by James Valcq and Fred Alley. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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