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Release Date: 03 February, 2004 Retail Price: $9.98 OUR Price: $9.98 You SAVE: $0.00! Cast: Complete Cast (25 total) |
Liberty Heights Reviews
Good all around movie
Everyone who's seen this movie knows what happens to the dad(Joe Mantegna) at the end. If you havent seen it- dont read it ahead---------
Anyway, the end is so sad when the father gets arrested and charged with crimes he never commited, and sentenced to 8 to 10 years, which he doesnt live through. ANd its even more sad because its so realistic. The police were evil back then, just like they're sick, evil people now. They are racist, they are immoral, they're ignorant, brainwashed, sick people. Its amazing how people can look back on an era and realize how corrupt the cops were in it, but then think that nowadays they arent. They are still horrible. There are countless people getting put in jail for no reason today, just like in this movie. Our country has numerous immoral laws- most glaring drug prohibition. It is immoral to put someone in jail, where they will be raped, beaten up(often by gaurds), and forced to live in torturous conditions. Its immoral to put any one in these conditions for commiting a non violent crime. Its absolutely immoral. Therefore, any person who becomes a cop and enforces these laws has to be an immoral person. In a hundred years(hopefully much sooner), the majority of the population will consider our imprisonment of drug users and sellers as just as sick and misguided as we do the imprisonment for homosexuality, miscegenation, drinking alcohol(during alcohol probition), and countless other laws we consider ridiculous and evil today.
But anyway, the movie is very good. Im not jewish, but i think everyone can relate to the characters and the lives they live. I love the 1950's and 60's culture- the cars and the parties and the soda founatain shops and all that, and this film is steeped in that kind of 50's nostalgia. It isnt the kind of insipid, mindless film that treats the time period as some idealized era steeped in goodness and innocence. It portrays it as it was- a cool time period but one absolutely amok with discrimination, paranoia, racism, conservativism, and corrupt authority figures- politicians like McCarthey, and cops like the ones in the movie- in these ways the 50's were a time period that is much like the last ten years here in america- one of innocence on the surface but discrinimation and corruption and evil underneath. One has only to watch the TV show cops or listen to various politicians on C-Span(of both parties)to see this.
But yeah, i dutifully reccomend the movie, its not fantastic, its kind of unique in that it doesnt really adhere to a three act format or anything, but it is well made, extremely well acted, and an accurate, well rounded portrait of both the positive and negative aspects of the 1950's in America.
Awesome!
A movie about a Jewish family in Baltimore, Maryland in the mid-1950s. One of my favorite movies.
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