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1999 Certificate 15
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Returning once again to the Baltimore of his youth, director Barry Levinson adds another installment to his Baltimore Trilogy (DINER, TIN MEN, AVALON), tackling the emotionally charged subjects of anti-Semitism and racism--in addition to his standard themes of family, friendship, and loyalty--in LIBERTY HEIGHTS. In 1954, Ben .. Read more

Starring Adrien Brody, Bebe Neuwirth, Joe Mantegna, Vincent Guastaferro
Director Barry Levinson
Genres Drama

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Liberty Heights

Returning once again to the Baltimore of his youth, director Barry Levinson adds another installment to his Baltimore Trilogy (DINER, TIN MEN, AVALON), tackling the emotionally charged subjects of anti-Semitism and racism--in addition to his standard themes of family, friendship, and loyalty--in LIBERTY HEIGHTS. In 1954, Ben Kurtzman (Ben Foster), a Jewish teen from Baltimore, is intrigued by the new girl in his class. The problem

Starring Adrien Brody, Bebe Neuwirth, Joe Mantegna, Vincent Guastaferro, Richard Kline, Orlando Jones, Ben Foster, Justin Chambers, David Krumholtz, Rebekah Johnson, Carolyn Murphy
Director Barry Levinson
Studio WARNER HOME VIDEO
Run time DVD: 2 hrs 3 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 01 Oct 2001
Production year: 1999
Format DVD

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    Barry Levinson has directed his share of large-scale productions, including Wag the Dog, Rain Man and Good Morning, Vietnam. But he has always seemed happiest handling smaller, more personal films such as Avalon and this. The setting is Levinson's home town of Baltimore in the mid-fifties, when blacks, Jews and Gentiles led separate lives of mutual intolerance. The plot traces the family conflict caused when one of two Jewish brothers falls for a wealthy Protestant girl, while the other tentatively courts an African-American. Beautifully acted and crafted with a terrific eye for period detail, Liberty Heights is one of those warm, uplifting films that lingers long in the mind.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • "...It's in the bracing humor and touching humanity of his characters that [Levinson] catches the surface and the soul of an era..."

    • Rolling Stone
    • Posted 11 Mar 2005

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  • 6 out of 11 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    Another unwatchable levinson

    This movie was so utterly boring that I couldn't face watching the last 30mins, it seemed to go on forever and much like 'Envy', which was TERRIBLE, it didn't really seem to be going anywhere or have any kind of aim in its storytelling. Other than to bore you to tears. It had the ingredients to be something good, but somehow they were all wasted.

    I will never watch another film by this director again no matter how good it is supposed to be. DO NOT RENT THIS - its rubbish!

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  • 6 out of 11 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    Another unwatchable levinson

    This movie was so utterly boring that I couldn't face watching the last 30mins, it seemed to go on forever and much like 'Envy', which was TERRIBLE, it didn't really seem to be going anywhere or have any kind of aim in its storytelling. Other than to bore you to tears. It had the ingredients to be something good, but somehow they were all wasted.

    I will never watch another film by this director again no matter how good it is supposed to be. DO NOT RENT THIS - its rubbish!

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      • Returning once again to the Baltimore of his youth, director Barry Levinson adds another installment to his Baltimore Trilogy (DINER, TIN MEN, AVALON), tackling the emotionally charged subjects of ...