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Liberty Heights is a 1999 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Barry Levinson. The film is a semi-autobiographical account of his childhood growing up in Baltimore in the 1950s. The film portrays the racial injustices experienced both by the Jewish and African-American populations.
Dec 31, 1999 · Liberty Heights: Directed by Barry Levinson. With Adrien Brody, Ben Foster, Orlando Jones, Bebe Neuwirth. Baltimore, Fall 1954: Schools implement the new integration law.
Dec 10, 1999 · Liberty Heights. Baltimore, 1954. Integration is the law of the land, and none too soon for Ben Kurtzman and his best pals, who are freshmen in high school. They regard the sign outside a municipal swimming pool: "No Jews, dogs or colored." Dogs they understand.
This semi-autobiographical film by Barry Levinson follows various members of the Kurtzman clan, a Jewish family living in suburban Baltimore during the 1950s. As teenaged Ben (Ben...
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Nov 17, 1999 · This semi-autobiographical film by Barry Levinson follows various members of the Kurtzman clan, a Jewish family living in suburban Baltimore during the 1950s. As teenaged Ben completes high school, he falls for Sylvia, a black classmate, creating inevitable tensions.
In "Liberty Heights," his fourth Baltimore-based film, Levinson pores over the social traumas and cultural trivia of 1950s America as reflected in his native...
Nov 10, 1999 · Barry Levinson goes deep with “Liberty Heights,” and the result is a grand slam. Summoning up boyhood memories of the ’50s for his fourth “Baltimore picture” and infusing them with ...
Liberty Heights is a 1999 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Barry Levinson. The film is a semi-autobiographical account of his childhood growing up in Baltimore in the 1950s. The film portrays the racial injustices experienced both by the Jewish and African-American populations.
This semi-autobiographical film by Barry Levinson follows various members of the Kurtzman clan, a Jewish family living in suburban Baltimore during the 1950s. As teenaged Ben completes high school, he falls for Sylvia, a black classmate, creating inevitable tensions.
2h 7m 1999. Overview. Synopsis. Credits. Film Details. Notes. Brief Synopsis. Read More. 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.
