Adrien Brody, Bebe Neuwirth, Ben Foster
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 cla...( read more
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DVD Release Date: June 20, 2000
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October 28, 2008Now there's a movie worth watching. Being a Barry Levinson fan, I usually have high expectations out of his movies...and he never lets me down.
The story is intriguing and it drags you along for the trip, the performances flawless (with Ben Foster the most noticeable one) and no...( read more) -
July 30, 2008Liberty Heights is one of those coming of age stories that actually feels relatable in some way. Thanks mostly to the performance from Ben Foster (the kid deserves more roles) the film has a heart that guides it through his narrative flaws.
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February 23, 2008Ada Kurtzman: No, there the other kind.
Set in 1954 Baltimore, this is a coming of age story involving two Jewish boys, one in high school, one in college, both going after girls and dealing with the changing in times and issues of race, class, and religion.
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December 1, 2007This episodic but heartfelt comedy-drama, set in the mid-1950s, stars Adrien Brody and Ben Foster as brothers Van and Ben Kurtzman, who come of age while grappling with anti-Semitism, their loving dad's (Joe Mantegna) shady business dealings. Each one of them having their own str...( read more)
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June 5, 2009Life for Jews and blacks in 1950's America. That sentence pretty much sums up the film. There's no plot, instead it's a character-lead film but sadly the characters are so cliched that the film ends up being supremely mediocre. Brody is good but has nothing to do, it's Foster who...( read more)
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December 22, 2008Brilliant film. I got to admit that this film showed the tough times between the jews, white and blacks in 1950's in Baltimore. Sure the characters are fiction but they were great as they connect to eacher to find love while same time caught with conflicts which makes unfair back...( read more)
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