July 3, 2003

I recently increased my odds of renting a quality flick at my local Blockbuster by skipping over the new releases section and checking out a classic: the 1990 Barry Levinson film \”Avalon.\”

An epic story of a Russian Jewish family in Baltimore that abandons its past to assimilate into mainstream American life, \”Avalon\” traces three generations of the Krichinskys from its immigrant beginnings to the third generation of their American existence.