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03/26/09
Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
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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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01/01/00
not as bad as the title makes it sound
12/12/03
Despite showing that she has a talent for writing clever dialogue, Jenkins quickly loses control over the story's direction.
01/01/00
It’s hard for me to sympathize with people I don’t like, and except for Lyonne’s character I didn’t like anyone in the story.
05/28/01
Refreshingly real.
10/15/02
The snack food equivalent of film -- it satisfies for a while, but it doesn't fill you up in the long run.
01/01/00
Really, it sounds more intriguing than it is. Nothing really happens.
01/01/00
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 CriticLyonne's splendid efforts are undermined by the scattered focus on other characters, who are well-acted but too much of a distraction.
01/01/00
Aside from Corrigan, there is nothing that I can recommend about it.
04/09/05
I wish Jenkins had showed more faith in Murray and Vivian. Like the Abramowitzes themselves, she doesn't seem to know how good she really has it.
01/01/00
Ms. Jenkins developed her script at the Sundance Institute -- hence Robert Redford's name as executive producer -- but her quirky humor is quite heavy-handed and she needs to learn how to do some judicious editing.
01/01/00
This is standard coming-of-age stuff padded out with quirky humour, chick bonding, and memorable eccentrics.
01/01/00
Coming-of-age films don't get any warmer, funnier, raunchier, or more endearing than Tamara Jenkins's brightly feisty memoir, 'Slums of Beverly Hills'.
01/01/00
A nice coming-of-age comedy!
01/01/00
[Jenkins'] characters are multitextured and all too human.
01/01/00
There's nothing better than being surprised by a film that does more than you expect.
01/01/00
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