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| ACTORS: | Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Tamara Jenkins |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 14 August, 1998 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Twentieth Century Fox |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-comedy |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 086162103797 |
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Customer Reviews of Slums of Beverly Hills
Great and funny movie Slums of Beverly Hills was a funny and sexy movie. Natasha Lyonne gives a great performance as a teenage girl growing up in a family of men without a mother figure. Marisa Tomei also give a funny performance as the druged out cousin. The rest of the cast brings the movie together to make this a very funny look at teenagers growing up. I recommend everybody see this movie on DVD.
Intensely funny and tastefully tasteless
"Slums of Beverly Hills" is one of those rare movies that exceed the boundaries of good taste yet causes all of us to laugh secretly at the "I've-been-there-before" scenarios. The cast is headed by Natasha Lyonne, a great newcomeer with cherubically large eyes that can look right through you. No one else would have been better for this part. She plays the daughter of a Nomadic father (wonderfully acted by Alan Arkin) and sandwiched between two equally-eccentric brothers. The oldest boy is a mildly obnoxious aspiring singer-actor; the youngest boy has a crush on the older. There are other good performances by Marrisa Tomei as the "dazed and confused" cousin who escapes from her own dysfunctional family, bringing new delimmas to our main character; and Carl Riener her successful yet heartless father. There are some hilariously offenseive scenes involving vibrators, bongs, dining room furniture (my lips are sealed) and hormonal neighbors. This film is not for everyone but for those of us living on the edge it's a gem.
A COMEDY THAT'S NOT THAT FUNNY
...or maybe it isn't meant to be funny? At any rate, if there's a reason to applaud this critically acclaimed indie, it's the performance of Natasha Lyonne in the focal role of Vivian.
Lyonne captures to a tee the ultimately frightening world of being a teenager on the verge of becoming a woman. Lyonne hits all the right notes, whether it's in lamenting her enormous boobs (a gag that gets old after a while) or exploring her cousin's vibrator (a remarkable scene with no dialogue that conveys the innocence of youth and shows what a fine actress Lyonne is). Alan Arkin lends good support as her father, but his performance is too one note to show us the real anguish he is feeling. His scene with Oscar winner Marisa Tomei in which he tells her how lonely he is is handled very well. Jessica Walter is around briefly as the new love interest in Arkin's life, and she does a beautiful job too. Tomei is adequate, but not entirely believable. Carl Reiner and Rita Moreno make a brief but memorable appearance as Tomei's parents.
All in all, this is a tender slice of life dramedy, but I wish it had been a little funnier.