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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790748245
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 079074824X
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: D18019D
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 20, 2000
Running Time: 127 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Liberty Heights Acclaimed filmmaker Barry Levinson (Rain Man Homicide: Life on the Street) returns to his hometown of Baltimore the setting of his Diner Avalon Tin Men and Homicide. The result is Liberty Heights a warmly funny semi-autobiographical tale told with an uncompromising eye for period detail and an eye-filling scale that includes 4000 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.Running Time: 128 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 085391801924
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When he's not crafting lavish Hollywood features like Rain Man, Bugsy, or the misbegotten Sphere, Barry Levinson occasionally makes highly personal films (the so-called "Baltimore series" of Diner, Tin Men, Avalon, and Liberty Heights). The latter, a 1999 release that disappeared all too soon from theaters, finds the aging Levinson working in a vein of pure memory: lyrical, mystical, forgiving. Ben Foster and Adrien Brody star as the middle-class Jewish sons of a shrewd burlesque operator (Joe Mantegna) running a petty numbers racket on the side. Set in the mid-'50s, the story finds the boys restless within the confines of their tight-knit community and unwilling to be restrained or rejected by anti-Semitic barriers or other racial and class prejudices.
Before the film is over, the young men's pursuit of the unattainable will include a troubled WASP princess (Carolyn Murphy) to a remarkable African American girl (Rebekah Johnson) kept on her family's short tether. Levinson provides generous glimpses of a nation undergoing re-invention, from white discovery of rock & roll to racial integration in classrooms. There's lots of broad satire (Jewish shock at being fed something called "luncheon meat" by a Gentile friend), some delicate comedy of manners (a touchingly chaste relationship between two key characters), suspense (a kidnapping), and shattering passages of pure yearning. Levinson is in top form with Liberty Heights, his instincts acute, his skills at the service of beauty, his purpose clear. --Tom Keogh
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I love Adrien Brody as an actor - Regarless this is a great movie - I caught this on satellite movie channel & decided I wanted to see it whenever I wanted to - SO I BOUGHT IT!
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It's hard to watch Liberty Heights without finding it a pastiche of Barry Levinson's previous three films about Baltimore and its engaging residents and neighborhoods. Liberty Heights has goofy young males, seemingly unattainable American princesses, flawed but loving families, a businessman (albeit a crooked one) caught on the cusp of societal change, an abiding love of big cars, and esoteric late night diner conversations. All those elements are found in one or more of Diner, Tin Men, and Avalon ... Read More
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A Barry Livingstone production, which is semi-autobiographical. The story centers on a Jewish family living in Baltimore at the height of anti-Semitism. Other racial issues emerge, such as the introduction of African American students into White schools. Despite the `weighty' content, this movie is actually a comedy, and there are several moments that are truly funny. Benefits from a great cast, including Adrian Brody - before his `mainstream' emergence.
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A movie about a Jewish family in Baltimore, Maryland in the mid-1950s. One of my favorite movies.
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A lot of Americans---especially the younger generations---are breathtakingly ignorant of their own very recent history, and films like "Liberty Heights" are invaluable for reminding us that no, this country has never been a utopian paradise of freedom as current day simpletons (read: George W. Bush and all his right wing partisan prostitutes like Rush Limbaugh, etc.) would have us believe.
The idea is not to fixate on the past but to use it as a guidepost towards the future---the kind of ... Read More
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