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Overview

User Rating:
7.0/10   3,997 votes
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Barry Levinson (written by)
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Release Date:
17 November 1999 (USA) more
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Tagline:
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... more | add synopsis
Awards:
2 nominations more
User Comments:
A Wonderful Story About Segregation and Love more (59 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

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
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for crude language and sex-related material.
Runtime:
127 min | Germany:122 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Trivia:
According to 'Barry Levinson', this film came out of a derogatory comment about Dustin Hoffman's character in Sphere (1998). The critic's comment got Levinson thinking about his experiences growing up in Baltimore, and Liberty Heights was born. more
Goofs:
Continuity: The toilet seat in the hotel room: down, then up, then down again just when she runs to it to vomit. more
Quotes:
Ada Kurtzman: How are the coloureds doing at school?
Ben Kurtzman: Okay, they're doing okay. They're getting better grades than I am. The girl's pretty attractive.
Ada Kurtzman: What?
Ben Kurtzman: ...She's attractive.
Ada Kurtzman: [angrily] Oh, just kill me now! Just kill me now!
Ben Kurtzman: What are you talking about...
Ada Kurtzman: What do you mean "she's attractive"?
Ben Kurtzman: Pretty.
Ada Kurtzman: Oh my God...
Ben Kurtzman: Mom, I said she was attractive, that doesn't necessarily mean I'm attracted to her!
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Movie Connections:
References "The Milton Berle Show" (1948) more
Soundtrack:
Chonnie-on-Chon more

FAQ

A NOTE ABOUT SPOILERS
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9 out of 10 people found the following comment useful.
A Wonderful Story About Segregation and Love, 6 October 2003
8/10
Author: Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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 in love with Dubbie (Carolyn Murphy – why this gorgeous actress has just this movie in her filmography?), a very problematic girl. He becomes friend of Trey Tobelseted (Justin Chambers), a young man from a very wealth family and boyfriend of Dubbie. Nate (the excellent Joe Mantegna) is the father, who lives from an illegal lottery of numbers. Nate loves his family and keeps them apart of his legal problems. Ada (Bebe Neuwirth) is the mother, who keeps the tradition of their family. Little Melvin (Orlando Jones) is a drug dealer, who wins a fortune of US$ 100,000 (in 1954) in Nate's lottery, raising a serious situation in the plot. This movie is wonderful: the soundtrack, photography and costumes are marvelous. The story, about segregation of Jews and blacks and love between races, is very beautiful. The viewer will not be disappointed with this entertainment. My vote is eight.

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