Liberty Heights

Liberty Heights
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Barry Levinson
Written by	Barry Levinson
Produced by	Barry Levinson Paula Weinstein
Starring	Adrien Brody Bebe Neuwirth Joe Mantegna
Cinematography	Christopher Doyle
Edited by	Stu Linder
Music by	Andrea Morricone
Production company	Baltimore/Spring Creek Pictures
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	November 17, 1999 (1999-11-17) (United States)
Running time	127 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$11 million
Box office	$3.7 million

Liberty Heights is a 1999 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Barry Levinson. The film is a semi-autobiographical account of his childhood growing up in Baltimore in the 1950s. The film portrays the racial injustices experienced both by the Jewish and African-American populations. Both of Nate Kurtzman's sons find women "prohibited" to them; for Van because he is Jewish and white, and for Ben because he is white. Their father goes to prison for running a burlesque show with Little Melvin, an African-American and known local drug dealer.

It is the fourth of Levinson's "Baltimore Films", set in his hometown during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: Diner (1982), Tin Men (1987) and Avalon (1990).^[1]