For her debut film, the funny and wise Slums of Beverly Hills , writer-director Tamara Jenkins has created a coming-of-age film that's truly about innocence and experience: the burdens and satisfaction that come with knowing. Like other films about the transformative events that shape a person, Slums of Beverly Hills deals with the complex nature of sexual awakening. With a great deal of witty, compassionate, female-centered frankness, Jenkins presents the travails of year-old Vivian Abramowitz Natasha Lyonne who recently and abruptly metamorphosed from scrawny to "stacked. Although her breasts are suddenly a focal point, they are by no means the only things causing confusion in her world. Living with two brothers -- the smug teen Ben David Krumholtz and perky kid Rickey Eli Marienthal -- is challenging enough.
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Post a Comment. Thursday, April 6, Slums of Beverly Hills is the greatest movie of all time. The foursome is pretty down-and-out until Marisa Tomei—Arkin's neice—shows up having just sprung herself out of rehab much to the chagrin of her old man, Arkin's millionaire brother. Arkin and Tomei who is great strike a deal with her pops, he will pay for them to stay in a nice place while Tomei goes to nursing school and the rest of them make sure she gets there and stays off of drugs.
Its protagonist is a teenage girl Lyonne struggling to grow up in in a lower-middle-class nomadic Jewish family that moves every few months. The film received mixed to positive critical reviews, and gradually became a cult classic. Fourteen-year-old Vivian Abromowitz's family are penniless nomads, moving from one cheap apartment to another in Beverly Hills in , so that Vivian and her brothers can attend the city's prestigious local schools. Their father, Murray, is a divorced year-old who refuses to retire , working as an unsuccessful Oldsmobile salesman whose cars are selling poorly due in large part to the energy crisis of the time. Vivian's wealthy uncle Mickey regularly sends the family money to help them survive.
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