Liberty Heights (1999)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.0/10   

Director:

Barry Levinson

Guionista (WGA):

Barry Levinson (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

17 noviembre 1999 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Música | Romance

Frase comercial:

You're only young once, but you remember forever.

Plot:

Anti-Semitism, race relations, coming of age, and fathers and sons: in Baltimore from fall, 1954, to fall...

Plot Keywords:

School | High School | Anti Semitism | Burlesque | Brother

Premios:

2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

I am neither Jewish nor Baltimorian (?), but . . .

Reparto

Adrien Brody	...	Van Kurtzman
Ben Foster	...	Ben Kurtzman
Orlando Jones	...	Little Melvin
Bebe Neuwirth	...	Ada Kurtzman
Joe Mantegna	...	Nate Kurtzman
Rebekah Johnson	...	Sylvia
David Krumholtz	...	Yussel
Richard Kline	...	Charlie, Nate's Assistant
Vincent Guastaferro	...	Pete, Nate's Assistant
Justin Chambers	...	Trey Tobelseted
Carolyn Murphy	...	Dubbie the Blonde
James Pickens Jr.	...	Sylvia's Father
Frania Rubinek	...	Grandma Rose
Anthony Anderson	...	Scribbles
Kiersten Warren	...	Annie the Stripper

También conocida como:

Liberty Heights (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for crude language and sex-related material.

Duración:

127 min | Germany:122 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés | Alemán | Yiddish

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Clasificación:

Iceland:12 | South Korea:12 | Netherlands:12 (video rating) | Netherlands:AL | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Chile:14 | France:U | Germany:6 (w) | Spain:13 | UK:15 | USA:R | Singapore:PG

Locaciones de Filmación:

Baltimore County Courthouse - 401 Bosley Avenue, Towson, Maryland, USA

Compañía:

Baltimore Pictures

Trivialidades:

Característica del director: [Barry Levinson]Ralph Tabakin (Phil, Spotlight Man at the Gaitey) has appeared in every Levinson picture from Diner (1982) to Liberty Heights (1999).

Errores:

Errores Reales: James Brown in 1954/55 was not a headliner, and he didn't record and release "Please Please Please" with a great deal of planning - it was cut with a single mike in a very haphazard way.

Citas:

Dubbie the Blonde: Do you speak french?
Van Kurtzman: No. Do you?
Dubbie the Blonde: Yes. Not as well as my father's boyfriend. But then again, he is French.

Conexiones de Película:

References "The Milton Berle Show" (1948)

Banda de Sonido:

Baby Eyes

I am neither Jewish nor Baltimorian (?), but . . .

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 males in a middle class family.

Yes, there is the treatment of racism and the self-consciousness that it spawns on both sides, and yes, the death throes of anti-semitism (at least among decent people). A middle-aged man finds he has outlived the world in which he came to prosper, and does not know what to do. There is something else: the "grass is always greener" hypothesis in ethnic/social class mixing. One of the protagonists meets his "shiksa goddess" and her lot, longs to cross a divide he does his best to bridge -- and finds his betters have feet of clay for all their poise and social standing.

LIBERTY HEIGHTS is in the best sense a North American story. Leaving one's ghetto, the benefits of learning to do so, and creation of a better world. Note how toward the end, the flawed and even cruel W.A.S.P. society boy becomes better for having accepted the hand of friendship of someone his father might have avoided.