Liberty Heights

This isn't a bad film. But it's also not great. The characters are easy to relate to, but the end of the movie didn't give me closure to each of their stories. The film seemed empty by the end, and didn't... Full review

LIBERTY HEIGHTS (LH) is a fine addition to writer/director Barry Levinson's series of nostalgic autobiographical Baltimore-set films. This episodic but heartfelt comedy-drama, set in the mid-1950s, stars Adrien Brody and Ben Foster as brothers Van and Ben Kurtzman, who come... Full review

Barry Levinson took us back to his life when he was young,in Baltimore;his beloved hometown.Journey to meomories about Love,Friendship,Racism and life during the 50's by the eyes of young Ben Kurtzman(young Levinson?).Through the great and beautiful photography by a fabulous cameraman... Full review

Barry Levinson took us back to his life when he was young,in Baltimore;his beloved hometown.Journey to meomories about Love,Friendship,Racism and life during the 50's by the eyes of young Ben Kurtzman(young Levinson?).Through the great and beautiful photography by a fabulous cameraman... Full review

I found "Liberty Heights" an immensely entertaining movie which shows great talent, especially actor-wise. The movie is a great portrayal of how things looked like in America in the 50's, showing religious, racial, social and other differences and also showing... Full review

In Baltimore, 1954, the Kurtzman family is a Jewish family living in the area of Liberty Heights. Ben (Ben Foster) is a rebel teenager, who has a crush on his black friend Sylvia (Rebekah Johnson). His college brother Van falls... Full review

this was a fine film, if not anything to blow one's hair back, leave one humming, or slipping into the dialogue. The story was set in the mid-1950s, accurately looks the part, and is actually three tales involving the three... Full review

This movie is sort of like the concept of the TV show Seinfeld-- it's about nothing. By this I don't mean that it lacks substance, in fact, it has plenty, but I mean rather that it does not involve an... Full review

Liberty heights is a great movie, full of laughter. It gives you a sense of history, as well as providing for a good, well rounded film. The acting is good, the script is well read, and the depiction of events... Full review

From time to time one comes across remarkable films like Liberty Heights where simple story is told in extraordinary manner. This film is about the Jewish Kurtzman family, but we follow the father and his two sons as three separate... Full review

Brody and Harper are both strong actors -- this is the latter's film debut -- but so dissimilar in looks that it becomes a wedge between the viewer and the film. Levinson found the phrase insulting -- ``I was really angry about the notion that there's one kind of Jew,'' he said -- and decided to make a film that would demonstrate the error of reducing any group to ``superficial behaviors. ... Full Review

Liberty Heights is a gentle, smart and funny examination of postwar America....Even the movie's few painful moments fade into a rose-tinted softness that won't be to every taste..... ... Full Review

Liberty Heights is one of the best films of 1999 and is sure to be on many year-end bests lists. The cast is simply perfect and all are worth special mentions (I won't! In particular, the original screenplay is masterful. ... Full Review

Liberty Heights is not so cloying as the first, or so dazzling as the last. This sign, set outside a suburban Baltimore country club in 1954, appears early in Barry Levinson's Liberty Heights , establishing at once the irony of its title (the name of a suburban Jewish neighborhood where its protagonists reside) and the film's focus on the insidious workings of prejudice, ranging from conspicuous to subtle. ... Full Review

Liberty Heights is not so cloying as the first, or so dazzling as the last. This sign, set outside a suburban Baltimore country club in 1954, appears early in Barry Levinsons Liberty Heights , establishing at once the irony of its title (the name of a suburban Jewish neighborhood where its protagonists reside) and the films focus on the insidious workings of prejudice, ranging from conspicuous to subtle. ... Full Review

If you want to feel the enormity of a film on a gigantic screen or be transported back to Hollywood's golden age, catch a movie at Baltimore's treasured Senator Theatre. ... Full Article

The movie Liberty Heights could easily be found on any Introduction to Judaism course curriculum. Liberty Heights follows around the Kurtzmans, a Jewish family in Baltimore, Maryland in 1954, and that alone would justify the movie's consideration for a curriculum.... ... Full Article

With some 9,500 credit and nearly 10,000 non-credit students enrolled each semester, Baltimore City Community College ranks as one of the city's foremost work force-enhancement institutions. ... Full Article

November 2, 2000 - According to a story in today's Hollywood Reporter , actor Adrien Brody (who starred in Liberty Heights and is in the upcoming The Affair of the Necklace ) is "in negotiations" to take on the role... ... Full Article

"Liberty Heights" stars Ben Foster and Rebekah Johnson talk about race relations and "spilling seed" in Barry Levinson's latest look back at Baltimore. "End of the Affair" director Neil Jordan talks about sex, Catholicism and why "God is the greatest... ... Full Article

Of Barry Levinson's four films depicting Jewish life in Baltimore, Liberty Heights is perhaps his most intimate and idyllic. The semi-autobiographical movie is a portrait of a "typical" Jewish family in northwest Baltimore in the 1950s. ... Full Article