Liberty Heights

Acclaimed filmmaker Barry Levinson (RAIN MAN) returns to his hometown of Baltimore, the setting of his DINER, AVALON, TIN MEN, and HOMICIDE films. The result is LIBERTY HEIGHTS, a warmly funny, semi-autobiographical tale told with an uncompromising eye for period detail and eye-filling scale that includes 4,000 extras. The year is 1954, a season of dramatic social flux that Levinson explores through the eyes of a Jewish family, the Kurtzmans (Adrien Brody, Ben Foster, Joe Mantegna, Bebe Neuwirth). Friendship, romance, rock-n- roll, courage, racism, Cadillacs, Halloween (should a nice Jewish boy dress up as Hitler?): the times are indeed changing. The Kurtzmans and America will never be the same.

  • Barry Levinson
  • 1999
  • USA
  • 127 minutes
  • Rated R for crude language and sex-related material
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