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Judy Berlin

[2000, Movie]

Judy Berlin: Review

Babylon and on: Edie Falco and Aaron Harnick

A gentle, offbeat drama that hails the arrival of a new talent in writer-director Eric Mendelsohn, and bids a poignant farewell to a uniquely gifted actress, the late Madeline Kahn. It's the second day of school in the middle-class New York City suburb of Babylon (just one burg east of Hal Hartley's Lindenhurst), and as the town anxiously awaits a noontime solar eclipse, the lives of a few of its inhabitants are also about to realign themselves. Sour grade-school teacher Sue... read more