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Avalon

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Avalon
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PG,2hrs 6min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1990
Director:
Barry Levinson
Distributor:
Columbia TriStar
Starring:
Armin Mueller-Stahl, Eve Gordon, Aidan Quinn  ...more
Synopsis: The third of director Barry Levinson's autobiographical "Baltimore Trilogy" (the first two entries were Diner and Tin Men), Avalon covers nearly forty years in the lives of an immigrant Jewish family. Sam Krichinsky (Armin Mueller-Stahl) emigrates to Baltimore in 1914, where Sam's brothers Gabriel (Lou Jacobi), Hymie (Leo L. Fuchs), and Nathan (Israel Rubinek) are awaiting his arrival. By and by, Sam meets his future wife, Eva (Joan Plowright). With the introduction of the Krichinsky's grown son ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Costello, AMG Review
Barry Levinson's sentimental family saga is an engaging and affecting film, particularly in its sense of comic detail, but is less persuasive in its overall design. The film covers half a century in the life of the Krichinsky's, a family of Russian immigrants, from their arrival in Baltimore in 1914. Levinson, who began his life in show business and a stand-up comic before becoming a comedy writer, ... Full Review
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Armin Mueller-Stahl
Sam Krichinsky
Eve Gordon
Dottie Kirk
Aidan Quinn
Jules Kaye
Elizabeth Perkins
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