A Polish-Jewish family comes to the USA at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.
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Cast
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Leo Fuchs | ... | Hymie Krichinsky |
| Eve Gordon | ... | Dottie Kirk | |
| Lou Jacobi | ... | Gabriel Krichinsky | |
| Armin Mueller-Stahl | ... | Sam Krichinsky | |
| Elizabeth Perkins | ... | Ann Kaye | |
| Joan Plowright | ... | Eva Krichinsky | |
| Kevin Pollak | ... | Izzy Kirk | |
| Aidan Quinn | ... | Jules Kaye | |
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Israel Rubinek | ... | Nathan Krichinsky |
| Elijah Wood | ... | Michael Kaye | |
| Grant Gelt | ... | Teddy Kirk | |
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Mindy Loren Isenstein | ... | Mindy Kirk |
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Shifra Lerer | ... | Nellie Krichinsky |
| Mina Bern | ... | Alice Krichinsky | |
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Frania Rubinek | ... | Faye Krichinsky |
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A Polish-Jewish family arrives in the US at the beginning of the century and they and their children try to build themselves a better future in the promised land. Written by Mattias Thuresson
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Three generations of family. They shared a dream called America in a place called Avalon.Genres:
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Country:
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19 October 1990 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$15,740,796Company Credits
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Sam Krichinsky: I came to America in 1914 - by way of Philadelphia. That's where I got off the boat. And then I came to Baltimore. It was the most beautiful place you ever seen in your life. There were lights everywhere! What lights they had! It was a celebration of lights! I thought they were for me, Sam, who was in America. Sam was in America! I didn't know what holiday it was, but there were lights. And I walked under them. The sky exploded, people cheered, there were fireworks! What a welcome ...
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Music by Ben Oakland
Lyrics by Herb Magidson
Performed by Ray Noble and His Orchestra with Buddy Clark
Courtesy of CBS Records, Music Licensing Department
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The home in the suburbs where the Kaye family moves from Avalon is director Barry Levinson's actual childhood home in Forest Park, west of Baltimore's city center. See more »Goofs
Armin Mueller-Stahl (who plays Sam Krichinsky) has hazel eyes, while the actor playing him as a younger man (Michael Krauss) has brown eyes. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Sam Krichinsky: I came to America in 1914 - by way of Philadelphia. That's where I got off the boat. And then I came to Baltimore. It was the most beautiful place you ever seen in your life. There were lights everywhere! What lights they had! It was a celebration of lights! I thought they were for me, Sam, who was in America. Sam was in America! I didn't know what holiday it was, but there were lights. And I walked under them. The sky exploded, people cheered, there were fireworks! What a welcome ...
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Crazy Credits
The credits roll over a photograph of Avalon, which begins as a sharp color photograph, but fades into a worn black-and-white picture at the end. See more »Soundtracks
I'll Dance at Your WeddingMusic by Ben Oakland
Lyrics by Herb Magidson
Performed by Ray Noble and His Orchestra with Buddy Clark
Courtesy of CBS Records, Music Licensing Department
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This film has much to recommend it-set design, cinematography and so on- but what makes it truly shine is a marvelous script and an ensemble cast that almost uniformly turn in excellent work. The characters live and breathe and fair jump off the screen at the audience. You come to care about them, even the ones you don't like. It's an entrancing, riveting journey through the 20th century as it was lived by one family. Don't miss this one. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll even be nice to that cousin you can't stand or your daughter's current boyfriend,who you swear is from Pluto! Most exceedingly highly recommended!!!