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Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)

Slums of Beverly Hills poster
Directed by
Tamara Jenkins
Genre
drama film, comedy film, coming-of-age film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 27m
Rated
R
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 253 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In 1976, a teenage girl moves around Beverly Hills with her struggling lower-middle-class Jewish family. She tries to navigate adolescence and family drama while her father constantly finds them new apartments.

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What happens

Slums of Beverly Hills is a 1998 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Tamara Jenkins, and starring Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, David Krumholtz, Kevin Corrigan, Jessica Walter, and Carl Reiner. The story follows a teenage girl (Lyonne) struggling to grow up in 1976 in a lower-middle-class nomadic Jewish family that relocates every few months. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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