Liberty Heights

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Actors: Joe Mantegna , Adrien Brody , Anthony Anderson , David Krumholtz , Ben Foster , Orlando Jones , Justin Chambers , Bebe Neuwirth , Kiersten Warren , James Pickens Jr. , Vincent Guastaferro , Rebekah Johnson , Richard Kline , Frania Rubinek , Carolyn Murphy

Director: Barry Levinson

IMDB Rate: 7 out of 10 (4084 votes)

Plot Summary:Anti-Semitism, race relations, coming of age, and fathers and sons in Baltimore from fall, 1954, to fall, 1955. Racial integration comes to the high school, TV is killing burlesque, and rock and roll is pushing the Four Lads off the Hit Parade. Ben, a high school senior, and his older brother Van are exploring the other in Bens case, its friendship with Sylvia, a Black student with Van, its a party in the WASP part of town and falling for a debutante, Dubbie. Sylvia gives Ben tickets to a James Brown concert Dubbie invites Van to a motel new worlds open. Meanwhile, their dad Nate, who runs a numbers game, loses big to a small-time pusher, Little Melvin a partnership ensues.