FILM: The Automat

(USA, 2022, 79 mins, color, NR) 

Featuring Mel Brooks, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Colin Powell and Elliot Gould 

Before fast food we had something better. Our grandparents told us stories of gathering around communal tables, sharing their lives, their struggles, and their dreams with strangers at The Automat. In the long awaited Horn & Hardart documentary, relive the phenomena of America's original and most beloved restaurant chain. The one hundred year Automat saga serves up never before-seen archival footage and photographs and a cast including celebrity customers, company executives, historians, and members of the Horn & Hardart families. - RottenTomatoes.com 

“The Automat taps into so many resonant aspects of what America used to be that to watch it is to be drawn into an enchanting and wistfully profound time-tripping reverie.” Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2/25/22