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Slums Of Beverly Hills on DVD (1998)

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Average rating: 55%
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Starring: Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, Natasha Lyonne, Rita Moreno, Carl Reiner, Jessica Walter, Kevin Corrigan, Eli Marienthal, David Krumholtz
Director: Tamara Jenkins
Studio: 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time: 87 mins
Certificate: 15
Genres: Comedy, Gay/Lesbian
Languages: English
Released: 02/08/2004
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Brief synopsis of Slums Of Beverly Hills

This is a coming-of-age comedy about Vivian (Natasha Lyonne, AMERICAN PIE 2) a young jewish girl in 1970's Beverly Hills who must come to terms with her family's constantly changing addresses as well as trying to control her budding sexuality. Marisa Tomei is a cousin who comes to visit (having escaped rehab) and adding even more mayhem to the proceedings. Jenkins' debut obviously strikes a few personal chords, which elevates this above the usual indie-fare.

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Rating of 2 stars out of 5 Radio Times

Routine action film, in which crook Robert Davi fakes a toxic spill so that his men can loot the homes of LA's rich and famous during the evacuation. Predictably, die-hard hero Ken Wahl rumbles the ruse, and tosses several spanners in the works. It's a promising plot, indifferently handled by director Sidney J Furie, who directed The Ipcress File back in the mid-sixties.

Time Out

A small film with plenty of incidental pleasures, writer/director Jenkins' debut feature puts a winning new spin on the... Read more on www.timeout.com

Halliwell's Film Guide

Coarse, semi-autobiographical comedy that resembles a TV sitcom with ideas above its station.

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Rated - 3 starsComing of age story within a semi-dysfunctional American family

A customer from London, England , 09/11/2004

This is a very enjoyable American teenage girl 'growing up' comedy that, unusually, does not take place in high-school but centers on her home life. She lives with her unemployed father and two brothers in various apartments around Beverly Hills as the father is keen for them to get a good education (so picks places with a 'good' zip code). The movie is an affectionate and gentle take on growing up in zany circumstances.

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Rated - 1 starsNot good

A customer from Southall/London , 24/10/2008

I don't know why they put this movie as a lesbian or even gay movie or maybe I just didn't catch the part of it. I just show a guy doing a girl and an unkle nearly doing his niece. Bad story. Not my tipe of movie.

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Rated - 3 starsComing of age story within a semi-dysfunctional American family

A customer from London, England , 09/11/2004

This is a very enjoyable American teenage girl 'growing up' comedy that, unusually, does not take place in high-school but centers on her home life. She lives with her unemployed father and two brothers in various apartments around Beverly Hills as the father is keen for them to get a good education (so picks places with a 'good' zip code). The movie is an affectionate and gentle take on growing up in zany circumstances.

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