You could say Barry Levinson's Liberty Heights is a pop culture manifesto on growing up Jewish in 1950s Baltimore.

 Or you might say it's like Do Not Go Gentile Into That Goodnight, Sweetheart. Sometimes, Liberty Heights gets that goofy.
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Big cars, gangsters who don't mean any real harm, racism overcome through humour, and James Brown. These are the elements that make up "Liberty Heights," Barry Levinson's latest movie.

 The story takes place in 1945 in Baltimore when integration is beginning and values are changing. The two main characters, Van (Adrian Brody) and Ben ( Ben Foster), are struggling to balance their parents' values and their desire for relationships with "inappropriate" members of the opposite sex.
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