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Starring R. Released to DVD on June 20, 2000. Coming-of-age and loss-of-innocence stories have been being told since before Homer recorded The Odyssey and The Illiad. Recently, these cinematic tales have become associated with cheap and corny movie-retrospectives about middle aged people looking back at their lives as teenagers, when they 'became' the men or women that they are today. And working from this definition, with the tagline of "You're only young once, but you remember forever", Liberty Heights is the epitome of this genre. Written and directed by Baltimore auteur, Barry Levinson, Liberty Heights focuses on the lives of Van and Ben Kurtzman (Adrien Brody and Ben Foster), two Jewish boys growing up during the 1950's in Liberty Heights, a predominately Jewish suburb of Baltimore. The boys face segregation, tough relations with African Americans and, by the end of the picture, have come to realize that life is not fair. There were some interesting and humorous ideas that were examined in Liberty Heights, but there were so many sub-plots in Levinson's script that some of the characters who deserved more screen time just didn't receive it.
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