Slums of Beverly Hills
Slums of Beverly Hills is a 1998 American comedy film, written and directed by Tamara Jenkins, and starring Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, David Krumholtz, Kevin Corrigan, Jessica Walter, and Carl Reiner. Its hero is a teenage girl struggling to grow up in the late 1970s in a lowermiddleclass nomadic Jewish family that moves every few months.
Vivian Abromowitzs family are penniless nomads, moving from one cheap apartment to another in Beverly Hills, so that Vivian Natasha Lyonne and her brothers can attend the citys prestigious schools. Their father, Murray Alan Arkin, is a divorced 65yearold who refuses to retire, working as an unsuccessful Oldsmobile salesman.Vivians wealthy Uncle Mickey Carl Reiner regularly sends the family money to help them survive. When Mickeys 29yearold daughter Rita Marisa Tomei runs away from a rehab facility, Murray offers her shelter if Mickey will pay for a plush apartment. Vivian must babysit her adult cousin, making sure she gets to nursing school and avoids pills and booze. But Vivian has her own problems shes curious about sex, likes an older neighbor kid, Eliot Kevin Corrigan, has inherited her mothers ample breasts, and wants a family that doesnt embarrass her. ........
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