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03/26/09
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.... [More]
Starring: Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, Kevin Corrigan
Director: Tamara Jenkins
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Reviews for Slums of Beverly Hills
Top Critic...a slight movie but a brave one
11/25/07
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
Top CriticA small film with plenty of incidental pleasures, writer/director Jenkins' debut feature puts a winning new spin on the adolescent comedy-drama.
06/24/06
Aside from Corrigan, there is nothing that I can recommend about it.
04/09/05
No review available.
02/08/04
not as bad as the title makes it sound
12/12/03
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
Lyonne is a natural, and clearly a young actress to watch.
11/07/02
No review available.
10/17/02
Refreshingly real.
10/15/02
No review available.
10/11/02
No review available.
07/25/02
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
Top CriticLatest News for Slums of Beverly Hills
January 22, 2007:
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