Fresh
Funny, well acted comedy from a new director whose career shuld be watched
Emanuel Levy, Variety
Slums of Beverly Hills
Growing up is hard to do.
1998 · 1h 31m · R
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Tamara Jenkins
Overview
In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.
Director and cast
- Tamara Jenkins Director
- Natasha Lyonne as Vivian Abromowitz
- Alan Arkin as Murray Samuel Abromowitz
- Marisa Tomei as Rita Abromowitz
- Eli Marienthal as Rickey Abromowitz
- David Krumholtz as Ben Abromowitz
- Kevin Corrigan as Eliot Arenson
- Jessica Walter as Doris
- Mena Suvari as Rachel Hoffman
- Carl Reiner as Mickey
- Harris Laskawy as Charlie the Cook
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
82%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
Fresh
A small film with plenty of incidental pleasures, writer/director Jenkins' debut feature puts a winning new spin on the adolescent comedy-drama.
Wally Hammond, Time Out
Rotten
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.
Ray Conlogue, Globe and Mail
Fresh
What lifts this brash comedy above the vulgar herd is Tamara Jenkins in a heartfelt feature debut as writer and director.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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