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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Sony EAN: 9780767859783 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0767859782 Label: Sony Pictures Languages: Manufacturer: Sony Pictures MPN: COLD05844D Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Publisher: Sony Pictures Region Code: 99 Release Date: March 13, 2001 Running Time: 126 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: October 05, 1990 Editorial Review: Product Description: Immigrant sam krichinsky and his extended family seek a dream called america in a place called avalon. From poverty through prosperity the krichinsky family faces their changing world with enduring humor and abiding love. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 11/28/2006 Starring: Armin Mueller-stahl Joan Plowright Run time: 128 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Barry Levinson Amazon.com: Writer-director Barry Levinson is at his best when exploring his native Baltimore during his formative years: the 1950s and 1960s. This film, drawing upon family stories, tells a compelling, amusing tale about an extended group that came to America one by one, each earning enough to bring the next sibling. The new, American-born generation--represented by Aidan Quinn and Kevin Pollak--see a future in that mysterious machine known as the television, even as the older generation, led by Armin Mueller-Stahl, finds its traditions shattering or being put aside. Funny, tragic, and telling, it's a terrific, multifaceted film that ultimately details the breakdown of the oral tradition in the wake of television's burgeoning popularity. --Marshall Fine Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A beautiful depiction of love, life and family...`Avalon' is a beautifully complete look at family life and how it becomes so easy for us to lose our focus on the important things in life the further we get from our roots. Barry Levinson, the writer and director of this beautiful piece of cinema, drew from personal experiences (members of his family even appear in the film) in order to create a very real and emotionally connected film that anyone can enjoy and relate to. At its heart it is a film about family, regardless of class distinction ... Read More Rating:  - A very fine drama, good plot and storyOn paper, writer-director Barry Levinson's semi-autobiographical Avalon, which begins with the arrival of Polish Jew Sam Krichinsky (Armin Mueller- Stahl) in the Avalon area of Baltimore, Md., on July 4, 1914, and ends when he is in his dotage on another July 4 sometime in the sixties, is an intellectually crystalline epic about the demise of the extended family, the erosion of traditional American and European values, the growth of alienated suburban culture (organized around television) and the ... Read More Rating: - A Movie Like Hollywood Used to MakeThis is an outstanding film -- a positive film -- just like Hollywood used to make. When I say "positive" I don't mean it's all peaches and cream and pollyanna. I mean it is, in the end, a very uplifting film. You've seen this film many times -- an immigrant family developing over the generations in a new country -- the U.S. Accordingly, it has all the joy and sadness that you see in any family, but the filmakers here have told the story with a brilliant touch of artistry and mastery. I know ... Read More Rating: - If you like Quality movies..This movie is great. I first saw it over 10 years ago, and I have not forgotten it. It's a fantastic movie about how times change, how the little things in life make a big difference and how families change, grow, seperate.etc. I love how it reflects the past and captures lazy summer days, bickering but loving families, grandparents out on the porch and old people who refuse to accept the new..it's a great movie! Rating: - Barry Levinson's Personal Epic Is Also His Forgotten MasterpieceLooking back at some recent comedies by Barry Levinson ("Envy" and "Man of the Year"), it's hard to remember the not-so-distant past when he was a major Hollywood director. A primary creative force behind TV's lauded "Homicide," he also won accolades for film projects as diverse as "Diner" in 1982 to "Wag the Dog" in 1997. And for a few years, he was on a real roll of serious minded and critically acclaimed movies--"Good Morning, Vietnam" followed by an Oscar for "Rain Man" and then another nomination ... Read More |
