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Slums of Beverly Hills (1998) -- This semiautobiographical story follows a lower-middle-class teenager (Lyonne) and her neurotic family in 1976 Tinseltown.
Slums of Beverly Hills (1998) -- Rita ignores a call for help while wearing her nurse's uniform.
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Slums of Beverly Hills (1998) -- The kids are embarrassed by their father when he tries to get the waiters attention.
Slums of Beverly Hills (1998) -- Vivian is caught wearing a mustache removal cream.

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Tamara Jenkins (writer)
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Release Date:
14 August 1998 (USA) more
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Never judge a girl by her address. more
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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 more
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Occasionally good, but mostly broad, comic timewaster more (71 total)

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Rated R for strong sexual situations, nudity, language and drug content.
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91 min | Argentina:92 min
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The 1954 hit song "Papa Loves Mambo" by Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra is featured in the trailer. more
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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. more
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Murray Samuel Abromowitz: Who the hell is that on your shirt?
Eliot: Charles Manson, sir.
Murray Samuel Abromowitz: Okay...
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Murray Samuel Abromowitz: Your sister gets the bedroom.
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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
Occasionally good, but mostly broad, comic timewaster, 28 January 1999
Author: pooch-8 from Fargo, North Dakota

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.

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