Liberty Heights

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-12-31

Languages:

English, German, Yiddish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

127 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (5713 Reviews)

Director:

Barry Levinson

Genres:

Drama Music Romance

Cast:

Adrien Brody Ben Foster Orlando Jones Bebe Neuwirth

Writer:

Barry Levinson

Fullplot:

Anti-Semitism, race relations, coming of age, and fathers and sons: in Baltimore from fall, 1954, to fall, 1955. Racial integration comes to the high school, TV is killing burlesque, and rock and roll is pushing the Four Lads off the Hit Parade. Ben, a high school senior, and his older brother Van are exploring "the other": in Ben's case, it's friendship with Sylvia, a Black student; with Van, it's a party in the WASP part of town and falling for a debutante, Dubbie. Sylvia gives Ben tickets to a James Brown concert; Dubbie invites Van to a motel: new worlds open. Meanwhile, their dad Nate, who runs a numbers game, loses big to a small-time pusher, Little Melvin; a partnership ensues.

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