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Writer:
Tamara Jenkins (writer)
Release Date:
14 August 1998 (USA)
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Tagline:
Never judge a girl by her address. more
Plot:
This semiautobiographical story follows a lower-middle-class teenager (Lyonne) and her neurotic family in 1976 Tinseltown. full summary | add synopsis
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8 nominations
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(4 articles)
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Occasionally good, but mostly broad, comic timewaster
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Natasha Lyonne | ... | Vivian Abromowitz |
 | Alan Arkin | ... | Murray Samuel Abromowitz |
 | Bryna Weiss | ... | Saleslady |
 | Marisa Tomei | ... | Rita Abromowitz |
 | Charlotte Stewart | ... | Landlady |
| Eli Marienthal | ... | Rickey Abromowitz |
 | David Krumholtz | ... | Ben Abromowitz |
 | Kevin Corrigan | ... | Eliot Arenson |
| Brendan Burns | ... | Cop in Station |
| Harris Laskaway | ... | Charlie the Cook |
 | Jessica Walter | ... | Doris Zimmerman |
 | Mena Suvari | ... | Rachel Hoffman |
 | Marley McClean | ... | Brooke Hoffman |
 | Mary Portser | ... | Mrs. Hoffman |
| Jock MacDonald | ... | Man at Brymans |
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Rated R for strong sexual situations, nudity, language and drug content.
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Runtime:
91 min | Argentina:92 min
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Certification:
Iceland:12 |
Singapore:NC-16 |
Netherlands:6 |
Canada:14A |
France:U |
Germany:12 (w) |
Singapore:R(A) |
UK:15 |
USA:R |
Argentina:13 |
Canada:13+ (Quebec)
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Trivia:
The 1954 hit song "Papa Loves Mambo" by Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra is featured in the trailer.
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Anachronisms: At the airport, a Boeing 737 flies overhead. Although the logo isn't visible, the colors are unmistakably those of Southwest Airlines. Southwest Airlines did not serve Los Angeles until the 1980s.
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Quotes:
Murray Samuel Abromowitz:
Who the hell is that on your shirt?
Eliot: Charles Manson, sir.
Murray Samuel Abromowitz: Okay...
[to family]
Murray Samuel Abromowitz: Your sister gets the bedroom.
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Eliot: Charles Manson, sir.
Murray Samuel Abromowitz: Okay...
[to family]
Murray Samuel Abromowitz: Your sister gets the bedroom.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "The Riches: Slums of Bayou Hills (#2.4)" (2008)
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Bright performances are the reason to see Tamara Jenkins' Slums of Beverly Hills, since the situations offered up by the writing consist of the usual comedic complications writers call "quirky" and "zany." Following the nomadic existence of Murray Abramovitz (Alan Arkin), a 65-year-old wash-out father of two teenagers and their kid brother, the movie focuses on Vivian (Natasha Lyonne) the single-parent family's lone female. Vivian is exasperated by her newly sprouted breasts, and a significant measure of the film's comedy arises from this singular obsession. Most out of place is Marisa Tomei, who plays the flaky, pregnant, basket case of a cousin who comes to live with the family. Jenkins would have done well to leave out this completely unnecessary character and devote more time to the challenges faced by Vivian.