You Can’t Make a Jersey Movie Without the Diner

You Can’t Make a Jersey Movie Without the Diner

When it comes to diners, New Jersey is in a class by itself. The website Eater once proclaimed it “the Diner Capital of the Country.” That most Jersey of television shows, “The Sopranos,” set its enigmatic finale in a diner, with Tony and the family gathered in a red Leatherette booth. Even Barry Levinson’s 1982 film “Diner,” which was set in Baltimore, was shot in a diner that was trucked down from New Jersey. So it was only natural that “Sprin…