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- “Avalon” is often a warm and funny film, but it is also a sad one, and the final sequence is heartbreaking. It shows the way in which our modern families, torn loose of their roots, have left old people alone and lonely–warehoused in retirement homes.
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Ultimately a sad movie, where the closeness of the family in the 1940's, ends up in the breakup of the family in the 1960's. Where he is surrounded by family members, brothers, cousins, and grandkids in the 40's, he's living alone in a nursing home with a quick visit from his grandson and his son.
In Avalon, we see the full light of Barry Levinson's strange talent for capturing calm, simple human joy in random moments, and also human sadness without detracting a single bit from that joy.
Dangerous-looking sparklers and fireworks explode on a street during the Fourth of July, a boy running through them. A large building catches fire and emits billowing smoke; sirens and firefighters on scene. A character collapses; their family is later seen attending their funeral.
- Aidan Quinn, Elijah Wood, Kevin Pollak
- Barry Levinson
- Columbia Tristar
Nov 23, 2010 · I felt sad staring into the screen as the blank faces of the characters stared back. The dialogue—discussions, arguments and flippant remarks—between family members had a great impact on me as well.
Oct 5, 1990 · The best of ''Avalon'' - which opens today at the Gemini Twin - is gently attuned to this family's love-hate relationship with its own past.
The film explores the themes of Jewish assimilation into American life, through several generations of a Polish immigrant family from the 1910s through the 1950s. The film was released to critical acclaim, and was nominated for four Academy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.
