| The Spitfire Grill | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Lee David Zlotoff |
| Written by | Lee David Zlotoff |
| Produced by | Warren G. Stitt |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Rob Draper |
| Edited by | Margaret Goodspeed |
| Music by | James Horner |
| Distributed by | Castle Rock Entertainment Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 117 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $6 million |
| Box office | $12.6 million[1] |
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.