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The Beverly Hillbillies (1993)

The Beverly Hillbillies poster
Directed by
Penelope Spheeris
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 33m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 599 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A poor hillbilly named Jed Clampett strikes oil and becomes a billionaire so he moves his family to a fancy Beverly Hills mansion. The Clampetts stick to their country ways while the high-society neighbors try to take advantage of them.

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What happens

The Beverly Hillbillies is a 1993 American comedy film directed by Penelope Spheeris, written by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, and starring Jim Varney, Diedrich Bader, Dabney Coleman, Erika Eleniak, Cloris Leachman, Rob Schneider, Lea Thompson and Lily Tomlin. Based on the television series of the same name (which ran from 1962 to 1971), the film features cameo appearances by Buddy Ebsen (the original Jed Clampett, in his final motion picture appearance, playing his other starring television role, Detective Barnaby Jones), Dolly Parton and Zsa Zsa Gabor. The film grossed $57 million worldwide and was panned by critics. It follows a poor hillbilly named Jed Clampett, who becomes a billionaire after inadvertently finding crude oil on his property while firing his gun. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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