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Avalon

Name: Avalon
Director: Barry Levinson
Genre: Drama
Released: 1990-10-05
Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth Perkins, Joan Plowright, Leo Fuchs

Drama

A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.

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Cast

Armin Mueller-StahlAidan QuinnElizabeth PerkinsJoan PlowrightLeo FuchsLou JacobiEve GordonKevin PollakIsrael RubinekElijah WoodGrant GeltMindy Loren Isenstein

Director

Barry Levinson

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