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Slums of Beverly Hills

The Slums of Beverly Hills
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Theatrical poster
Directed by Tamara Jenkins
Produced by Michael Nozik
Stan Wlodkowski
Written by Tamara Jenkins
Starring
Music by Rolfe Kent
Cinematography Tom Richmond
Edited by Robert Duffy
Production
company
Wildwood Enterprises
Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures
Release date
  • August 14, 1998 (1998-08-14) (US)
  • November 27, 1998 (1998-11-27) (UK)
Running time
91 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget USD $5,000,000
Box office $5,502,773

Slums of Beverly Hills is a 1998 American comedy film, written and directed by Tamara Jenkins, and starring Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, David Krumholtz, Kevin Corrigan, Jessica Walter, and Carl Reiner. Its hero is a teenage girl struggling to grow up in the late 1970s in a lower-middle-class nomadic Jewish family that moves every few months.

The film barely earned back its budget, and thus is not considered a box-office success. It received mixed to positive reviews. It gradually became a cult classic.

14-year-old, Vivian Abromowitz's family are penniless nomads, moving from one cheap apartment to another in Beverly Hills in 1976, so that Vivian (Natasha Lyonne) and her brothers can attend the city's prestigious schools. Their father, Murray (Alan Arkin), is a divorced 65-year-old who refuses to retire, working as an unsuccessful Oldsmobile salesman whose cars are selling poorly due in large part to the Energy crisis of the time.

Vivian's wealthy Uncle Mickey (Carl Reiner) regularly sends the family money to help them survive. When Mickey's 29-year-old daughter Rita (Marisa Tomei) runs away from a rehab facility, Murray offers her shelter if Mickey will pay for a plush apartment. Vivian must babysit her adult cousin, making sure she gets to nursing school and avoids pills and booze. But Vivian has her own problems: she's curious about sex, likes an older neighbor kid, Eliot (Kevin Corrigan), has inherited her mother's ample breasts, and wants a family that doesn't embarrass her.


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