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Slums of Beverly Hills

1998 · 91 min

A wry, tender, and awkwardly funny look at adolescence, full of cringe and warmth.

Tagline
Growing up is hard to do.
Overview
In 1976, a teenage girl struggles to cope while living with her neurotic lower-middle-class family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • coming-of-age
  • family
  • identity
  • class
  • parenthood
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language strong
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour7
Realism8
Romance3
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
comedy, drama
Directed by
Tamara Jenkins
Written by
Tamara Jenkins
Starring
Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, Eli Marienthal, David Krumholtz, Kevin Corrigan, Jessica Walter, Mena Suvari
Music
Rolfe Kent
Cinematography
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Runtime
91 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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