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The Beverly Hillbillies

The day they moved in... Beverly Hills moved out.

1993 · 1h 32m · PG Comedy, Family
Directed by Penelope Spheeris

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Overview

Mild-mannered dirt-poor hill-dweller Jed Clampett strikes it rich when oil is discovered on his property. At cousin Pearl's insistence, he moves his family to Beverly Hills to better enjoy his newfound wealth.

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All reviews
26%
Tomatometer
Rotten

Four writers worked on the script, and they all should hang their heads in shame.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh

It's thin stuff, but the ingratiating naivete of the characters and the aw-shucks friendliness of the cast are disarming, and it becomes easy to just let this go down as a country tune with some moonshine on the side.

Todd McCarthy, Variety
Fresh

You'll hate yourself for enjoying this, but enjoy it you will.

Janet Maslin, New York Times
Rotten

Tomlin finds the humor and the heart in these hillbillies. The rest is just crude oil.

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Rotten

Imagine the dumbest half-hour sitcom you've ever seen, spin it out to 93 minutes by making it even more thin and shallow, and you have this movie. It's appalling. It's not even really a good version of whatever it was that made the TV series appealing.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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