Woody Allen has Manhattan, Levinson has Baltimore, the setting of DINER, TIN MEN and AVALON. Liberty Heights is a neighbourhood there; in the 1950s it’s home to the Jewish Kurtzman family. Teenage sons Ben and Van and their father are all experiencing the realities of virulent racism and anti-Semitism as they venture into the worldof the gentiles – both black and white. An affectionate portrait of the troubled and promising 50’s America that in its challenging of stereotypesoffers the flip side of Happy Days.
Liberty Heights
Directed by Barry Levinson