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Dominican Rep. Liberty Heights
- Original title
- Liberty Heights
- Year
- 1999
- Running time
- 127 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Racism
- Synopsis
- It is Baltimore in 1954 and everything is changing.
In this year, school desegregation is happening for the first time, bringing black and white children from different neighborhoods into the same classrooms.
In this year, the dawning of rock'n'roll is giving teenagers their first slice of a musical world that will become uniquely their own.
In this year, the influx of automobiles becomes a powerful force in America, allowing people the mobility and privacy to travel at will -- to see things right in their own hometowns that were previously unknown to them.
And in this year, the Kurtzman family develops a newly heightened understanding of what it means to be Jewish in a rapidly growing world.
Funny and dramatic, "Liberty Heights" is a look at the fabric of life at a pivotal time in American social history. In this, the fourth of his Baltimore-based films, Academy Award-winning director BARRY LEVINSON revisits his home, the location of some his most memorable work, including "Diner," "Tin Men" and "Avalon." This time he examines the changing times of the mid-1950s and the issues of race, class and religious distinction as seen through the eyes of a Jewish family, Nate (JOE MANTEGNA) and Ada (BEBE NEUWIRTH) Kurtzman, their sons Van (ADRIEN BRODY) and Ben (BEN FOSTER), and their friends.
Through the eyes of two generations, 1954 becomes the year that tests and transforms the familiar lives and identities of these people in a rapidly changing world.- Critics' reviews
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"Seems to encompass all the humor, sadness and weirdness of ordinary life in an utterly winning, morally acute way"
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"A languorous, funny and lovingly detailed memory film."
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"Told from too many perspectives, the narrative puts suspense above substance, and its social consciousness seems contrived"
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"A mature, accomplished piece of work, both funny and deeply felt, personal cinema of the best kind...Levinson has made the memory film we always hoped he would"
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"Emerges as an accurate memory of that time when the American melting pot, splendid as a theory, became a reality"
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"I think Levinson missed a chance to get something unique and audacious on screen."
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"This is a small, intimate movie bound to get lost in the holiday shuffle, but its pleasures are worth seeking out."
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