Three Screenplays: Avalon / Tin Men / Diner

by Barry Levinson

Breaking onto the scene in 1982 with Diner, which was hailed by one critic as a masterpiece of observation, Academy Award-winner Barry Levinson has since become recognized as one of the preeminent writer/directors of our time.

Diner was set in Levinson's native Baltimore, during the late 1950s of his youth, and is, as Pauline Kael wrote in the New Yorker, "that rare autobiographical movie made by someone who knows how to get the texture right."...With Tin Men Levinson returned to richly detailed middle class milieu of Baltimore and introduced another group of characters -- the "tin men" who make their living hard-selling aluminum siding to unsuspecting homeowners...In Avalon Levinson continues his cycle of Baltimore stories.

373 pages, Paperback

First published January 21, 1990

About the author

Barry Levinson is an American screenwriter, film director, actor, and producer of film and television. His films include Bugsy, The Natural and Rain Man.

Reviews

[Scott]

I only read Tin Men in this collection. I loved the screenplay and the movie.

[Kaethe]

Loved the movies; loved the screenplays: I'm predictable like that.