Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989)
- Directed by
- Paul Bartel
- Genre
- comedy film, LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Rating
- 5.4 of 10 from 32 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A widowed TV actress prepares for her comeback while her friends and staff embarrass her by gossiping to a reporter about their sex lives. She begins a romance with a playwright as the ghost of her husband complains.
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What happens
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills is a 1989 American black comedy film co-written and directed by Paul Bartel. The film re-unites Bartel with his Eating Raoul co-stars Mary Woronov and Robert Beltran. It also stars Jacqueline Bisset, Ray Sharkey, Ed Begley Jr., Wallace Shawn, Paul Mazursky, and Rebecca Schaeffer. This is Schaeffer's final film appearance to be released (and the only theatrical release) during her lifetime, as it served as the catalyst for her murder by a stalker one month after its release. The film deals with a widowed television actress, her circle of friends, and her employees. Her planned comeback is sabotaged, when the people around her start bragging to a reporter about their sexual indiscretions. The actress soon starts a romantic relationship with a playwright, while rejecting jealous protests by her husband's ghost. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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