--- title: 'Avalon (1990)' type: 'film' director: 'Barry Levinson' released: '1990-01-01' runtime_minutes: 128 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/avalon-1990' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099073/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Avalon (1990) 1990 · 128 min · Drama · United States ## Synopsis Avalon is a 1990 American drama film written and directed by Barry Levinson and starring Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elizabeth Perkins, Joan Plowright and Aidan Quinn. It is the third in Levinson's semi-autobiographical tetralogy of "Baltimore films" set in his hometown during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s; the other "Baltimore films" are Diner (1982), Tin Men (1987) and Liberty Heights (1999). 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. ## Credits - **Director:** [Barry Levinson](https://cinepixo.com/people/barry-levinson) - **Screenplay:** [Barry Levinson](https://cinepixo.com/people/barry-levinson) - **Original Music Composer:** [Randy Newman](https://cinepixo.com/people/randy-newman) - **Producer:** [Mark Johnson](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-johnson) - **Director of Photography:** [Allen Daviau](https://cinepixo.com/people/allen-daviau) - **Editor:** [Stu Linder](https://cinepixo.com/people/stu-linder) ## Cast - [Elijah Wood](https://cinepixo.com/people/elijah-wood) - [Joan Plowright](https://cinepixo.com/people/joan-plowright) - [Ronald Guttman](https://cinepixo.com/people/ronald-guttman) - [Kevin Pollak](https://cinepixo.com/people/kevin-pollak) - [Armin Mueller-Stahl](https://cinepixo.com/people/armin-mueller-stahl) - [Arthur Godfrey](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-godfrey) - [Paul Quinn](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-quinn) - [Eve Gordon](https://cinepixo.com/people/eve-gordon) - [Elizabeth Perkins](https://cinepixo.com/people/elizabeth-perkins) - [Thomas Mills Wood](https://cinepixo.com/people/thomas-mills-wood) - [Aidan Quinn](https://cinepixo.com/people/aidan-quinn) - [Lou Jacobi](https://cinepixo.com/people/lou-jacobi) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/avalon-1990 Film facts: Wikidata (Q790090); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.