Movieville

An engrossing memoir but only an okay film. I loved this view of the uneasy racial and religous balances in 1954 Baltimore, and all of the characters in it. But there are about five smaller stories, none carrying enough weight to really support a full film. But as the dark underside of a Rockwell painting, it's great. B

I can remember a time when where we went to the movies was just as important as the movies we went to see .... From the moment moviegoers arrived to buy their tickets, there was a sense of something special, a feeling that to step inside was to enter another time and place. - Gene Kelly