A small film with plenty of incidental pleasures, writer/director Jenkins' debut feature puts a winning new spin on the adolescent comedy-drama.
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06/24/06
Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
79 %
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Reviews Counted: 57
Fresh: 45
Rotten:12
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Consensus: Warm, real, and hilarious.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: This is a coming-of-age story about a young girl in 1970's Beverly Hills who must come to terms with her family's constantly changing residences as well as trying to control her budding sexuality. Marisa Tomei is a cousin who comes to visit,... [More]
Starring: Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, Kevin Corrigan
Director: Tamara Jenkins
Reviews for Slums of Beverly Hills
Top Critic This is standard coming-of-age stuff padded out with quirky humour, chick bonding, and memorable eccentrics.
01/01/00
Top Critic
Uneven but filled with flashes of painful insight into the pitfalls awaiting adolescent girls.
01/12/07
Though hypocritical in the way it sensationalizes sexuality, this serious and funny 1998 movie about a 15-year-old coming to terms with her body and her family in 1976 is, refreshingly, never coy or ironic.
01/12/07
A marvelous, fresh new coming-of-age comedy-drama, one that breathes fresh new life into the genre.
05/22/03
Intelligent, humorous and thoroughly poignant, this can easily hold its own with the best comedies of the year.
05/14/03
Terrific performances from Alan Arkin and Natasha Lyonne dominate this engrossing look at a financially strapped Jewish family trying to survive despite their penury.
02/02/03
There's an alchemy that can transform personal experience into a great film, but it was nowhere nearby when Tamara Jenkins wrote and directed this lacklustre first feature.
07/12/02
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January 22, 2007:
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