Writer-director Barry Levinson ("Diner") revisits 1950s Baltimore for this perceptive period piece. Joe Mantegna shines as a Jewish patriarch who watches his neighborhood change, along with his sons. Teenage Ben (Ben Foster) has a crush on a black classmate (Rebekah Johnson), and college-age Van (Adrien Brody) is becoming obsessed with a WASP socialite (Carolyn Murphy). Bebe Neuwirth.