Slums of Beverly Hills is a 1998 motion picture, written and directed by Tamara Jenkins. It tells a story of a teenage girl struggling to grow up in a lower-middle-class family that moves every few months in the late 1970s.
The film stars Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, David Krumholtz, Kevin Corrigan, Jessica Walter, and Carl Reiner.
As well as being a moderate box office success (considering it was an independent film), it was receive...
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Slums of Beverly Hills is a 1998 motion picture, written and directed by Tamara Jenkins. It tells a story of a teenage girl struggling to grow up in a lower-middle-class family that moves every few months in the late 1970s.
The film stars Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, David Krumholtz, Kevin Corrigan, Jessica Walter, and Carl Reiner.
As well as being a moderate box office success (considering it was an independent film), it was received very well by critics.
Vivian Abromowitz's family are penniless nomads, moving from one cheap apartment to another in Beverly Hills, so that Vivian and her brothers can attend the city's schools. Her father Murray, a divorced 65-year-old who refuses to retire, works as an unsuccessful Oldsmobile salesman at a time when sales of small foreign cars such as Hondas and Toyotas are booming while those of large American vehicles are flat or falling.
Vivian's wealthy Uncle Mickey (Reiner) regularly sends the family money to help them survive. When...
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