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Liberty Heights (2008)

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Rated: R; Genres: Comedy, Drama; With: Adrien Brody, Ben Foster and Joe Mantegna

B-

By Daniel Fierman

Daniel Fierman

Daniel Fierman is a staff writer for EW

Barry Levinson goes back to the Baltimore well for the fourth time, following the fictional Kurtzman family as they grapple with civil rights, alcoholic WASPs, soul-music appreciation, Jewish identity, and assorted other '50s flotsam. Sweet-hearted, if a little contorted, Liberty Heights is the cinematic equivalent of comfort food — simple, formulaic, and slightly overdone. B-

Posted Jun 23, 2000

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