Liberty Heights (1999)

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Liberty Heights
by JimBell in JimBell Blog

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"If you are interested in growing up Jewish in Baltimore in 1954, you’ll love Liberty Heights. But seriously, this is an excellent movie, and not a nostalgia piece. Apparently Barry Levinson decided to write the script and direct the movie after he read what he thought was an anti-Semitic review of one of his earlier movies. The reviewer assumed that because a character was a doctor and called home all the time that he was Jewish. Levinson set out to show that things aren’t and weren’t that simple, and he chose his home town of Baltimore and the big year of change, 1954, to show the awkwardness, excitement, and maturity that can come from dealing with “the other.” So Levinson follows in realistic detail a 50s family sorting out its issues. Ben (Ben Foster) strikes up an intense friendship with the one and only black girl in his newly integrated school (Sylvia played by singer Rebekah Johnson). Her dad, a prominent doctor from a long line of educated bla ... " [More]

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