Liberty Heights

Liberty Heights is a 1999 comedydrama by writerdirector Barry Levinson. The film is a semiautobiographical account of his childhood growing up in Baltimore in the 1950s. It is the fourth of Levinsons four Baltimore Films set in his hometown during the 1940s, 50s, and 60s Diner 1982, Tin Men 1987, Avalon 1990, and Liberty Heights 1999.

Ben meets Sylvia, an AfricanAmerican girl, who begins attending his school after the district has been integrated. Ben immediately starts to develop feelings towards Sylvia, and introduces himself. The two become close based on a mutual love for Little Richard, James Brown, jazz musicians, and black comedians. Sylvias father, an affluent doctor, disapproves of their relationship and forbids them to see one another.On Halloween, Ben dresses up as Adolf Hitler, which offends his parents greatly. Van and his friends head over to a party in a predominantly bourgeois, gentile section of Baltimore. Van is attracted to a mysterious blonde woman. A fight between one of Vans buddies and a gentile erupts and Trey, one of the partygoers, drunkenly crashes his car into the house. Van must leave the mystery woman. ........

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