A group of Los Angeles teenagers meet every week at their local diner to discuss their latest misadventures in their miserable lives.A group of Los Angeles teenagers meet every week at their local diner to discuss their latest misadventures in their miserable lives.A group of Los Angeles teenagers meet every week at their local diner to discuss their latest misadventures in their miserable lives.
Wendy Fowler
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This movie isn't the most incredible thing in the world, but it's really entertaining to witness just how insane Leonardo DiCaprio and Toby Maguire are. I am a HUGE Jenny Lewis fan, so I was super excited to watch her, and she has a fairly large role (one that includes making out with Leo).
If you want to watch it just for Amber Benson, I'm sorry to say she only appears for about 3 minutes, so don't bother.
Check it out if you have a thing for black and white movies about people dealing with their "issues", or if you care to see Leonardo act like an idiot in fake hillbilly teeth.
If you want to watch it just for Amber Benson, I'm sorry to say she only appears for about 3 minutes, so don't bother.
Check it out if you have a thing for black and white movies about people dealing with their "issues", or if you care to see Leonardo act like an idiot in fake hillbilly teeth.
I loved watching these people and the power dynamics created by a group of immature dude friends who bring a new 'date' every Saturday night to the same diner to eat cold fries, drink bad coffee, and talk smack. The girls are temporary fixtures in their world of male aggression and slacker love. How they go along with the jokes, abuse, hugs, and bonding makes for an ever changing landscape of desire and disgust. The group is always right, until one of them tries to assert their independence and momentarily offers a different opinion, and then they in turn become isolated from the others. The alliances shift throughout the film, though the one constant is being alone in a crowd.
Although the film is mostly eight kids sitting around a large booth talking, a few detours have the group interact with a lone diner they taunt who just wants to be ignored, a self-loathing waitress who puts on an act as a people-pleaser, a couple of drug fiends who bully their way into handouts, and a sexed up producer lady who makes movies and makes out.
The audience makes out pretty well too.
Although the film is mostly eight kids sitting around a large booth talking, a few detours have the group interact with a lone diner they taunt who just wants to be ignored, a self-loathing waitress who puts on an act as a people-pleaser, a couple of drug fiends who bully their way into handouts, and a sexed up producer lady who makes movies and makes out.
The audience makes out pretty well too.
this is definitely a movie that is not always easy to watch. Its about a group of kids that go and hang out at a restaurant called "Don's Plum". if you are a fan of any of the actors in the movie you really should try to see it. there are some really interesting performances by Dicaprio, Maguire, and Jeremy Sisto . You will definitely see them all in a way that you have never seen them before
Rather dull film overall. It was a stretch to turn this short shot in 1996 into a feature length film, but still interesting to see some of Hollywood's hot young stars improvising in low budget cinema before they were the mega stars that they are today (notably leo pre titanic and toby pre spiderman).
Don's Plum. The first time I heard the name, and about the controversy surrounding it, especially with DiCaprio and Macguire, I thought it was a gay romance. On watching it however, I found it to be an interesting, insightful and sometimes confusing bit of film making. Some of the characters are very well portrayed, with their own quirks, and it was the first movie I'd where Leo actually acts. His character, Derek, is not a cute, romantic, retarded guy. He's an annoying, selfish try-hard that seeks attention from the group by whatever means necessary. Ian, Toby's character, is fantastic. He's like a kid with ADD, and for all we know, he does. He's a pacifist, a non-conformer and he's slightly out of it. Macguire does an awesome job with Ian, and it was nice to see a different character from him, other than a wishy-washy pussy-whipped wimp like in Pleasantville or Cider House Rules, or a try-hard super-hero like in Spiderman. The female stars by far outshine their male counterparts. Jenny Lewis is amazing as the dope-addicted Sarah. She brings out a real sense of pathos, though her script needed some work. Amber Benson role as Amy is small, and the only reason Amy is there is to show how much of an arsehole Derek is. The movie is a good sample of what can happen with experimental film. The idea works very well and the small soliloquies in the bathroom are just great. The editing is a bit choppy in some places, and the sound mix could be better, but overall I was very satisfied with the end product. Why Leo and Toby wanted the distribution of the Plum to be suppressed is beyond me.
Did you know
- TriviaDale Wheatley (producer/director/"Little Bum") uploaded the film for free streaming at the site www.freedonsplum.com in December 2015, along with an open letter to Di Caprio, challenging his version of events that led to the film being banned in the US and Canada.
- GoofsAt one point in the movie (around 26:05), Sara (played by Jenny Lewis, says to Derek (Leonardo DiCaprio), "Leo, man, chill". Derek and Amy (Amber Benson) were having a heated discussion in the movie but in real life, the two actors were known to not get along.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Beyond Clueless (2014)
- SoundtracksGo Ahead
Written by Jenny Lewis and Blake Sennett
Performed by Rilo Kiley
Courtesy of Rilo Records
Published by Up From Sloth Music
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $41,939
- Runtime
- 1h 29m(89 min)
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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