Diner : Liberty Heights

Locations
Call Number: DVD Comedy Diner
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	DVD Comedy Diner	1-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	DVD Comedy Diner	1-week checkout	On Shelf

Diner originally produced as a motion picture in 1982 ; Liberty Heights originally produced as a motion picture in 1999.
Special features: Side A. Documentary Diner: on the flip side ; introduction by Barry Levinson and the film's stars ; theatrical trailers of both films. Side B. Interviews and on-set footage with writer/director Barry Levinson and film's stars; deleted scene; music-only track; theatrical trailers of both films.
[Disc 1]. Diner (110 min.) -- [Disc 2]. Liberty Heights (128 min.).
Diner: Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Timothy Daly, Ellen Barkin. Liberty Heights: Adrien Brody, Bebe Neuwirth, Joe Mantegna.
Diner: Set in 1959, a band of long-time buddies since high school gather at a local diner to share their escapades and make sense of their lives. As one by one they drift off to join the mainstream of life they still cling to their shared boyhood dreams.
Liberty Heights: In Baltimore in 1954, a season of dramatic social flux is explored through the eyes of a Jewish family.
DVD ; Dolby digital ; widescreen.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Levinson Double Feature submitted by shira.pilarski on July 18, 2020, 4:00pm It's a bit odd that this double feature of Barry Levinson's Baltimore films tetralogy includes the first and last movie - you would think there would be two double feature discs, one of which includes Diner and Tin Men (1 and 2) and the other of which includes Avalon and Liberty Heights (3 and 4). But still, these films have the same setting of 1950s Baltimore (and Liberty Heights even has a scene with the Fells Point Diner in it). Liberty Heights is more of an "issue" movie, tackling subjects like interracial romance, anti-Semitism, growing up in Jewish families, and a parent going to prison. Diner is more of a funny romp of a movie, with lots of vignettes about young adults and their friends.

This is not ONE but TWO movies, both unsufferable to watch, crappy nostalgia flicks. submitted by Tassos on March 13, 2021, 10:53am Hey: TWO crappy movies are not better than ONE DECENT ONE.

THese two were part of 4, which included the 1000 times better "Tin Men" which I have seen in the theaters and again on TV and on DVD.

Maybe it was the actors, Dreyfuss and De VIto, whose excellent performances rescued "Tin Men" while the second-rate actors in these two movies could not.