Avalon

Avalon

1990 · 126 min · EN · PG · 6.5 (74 votes)
Dir. Barry Levinson · Starring Armin Mueller-Stahl, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth Perkins, Joan Plowright, Leo Fuchs, Lou Jacobi · Music Randy Newman

Three generations of family. They shared a dream called America in a place called Avalon.

Drama

A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.

VIBE

A tender, nostalgic look at an immigrant family's journey. It feels like flipping through old photographs, filled with the warmth of tradition and the quiet melancholy of change. A gentle, character-focused experience.

nostalgicmelancholicsentimentalwarmslow-burnperiod dramaslice-of-lifecharacter-drivenimmigrant experiencefamilytraditioncultural assimilationthe American dream
immigrantbaltimoreusarabbisynagoguebar mitzvahnostalgiasemi autobiographical1940s1910s
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