Avalon Summary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Barry Levinson
Genres: Drama
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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 Jules (Aidan_Quinn), the film ventures into culture-clash country. Unwilling to become a manual laborer like his dad, Jules opts for the life of a door-to-door salesman. Eventually, he teams with his cousin Izzy (Kevin_Pollak) to open the first TV store in Baltimore. Thereafter, the disintegration of the Krichinsky family is paralleled by the rise of TV's omnipresence in the American home. Avalon's elegiac and melancholy effect is underlined by Randy_Newman's soulful musical score. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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