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Warner Bros. Pictures
details
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Release Date: Aug 14, 1998
Running Time: 91 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
A personal memoir of growing up on the wrong side of the 90210 zip code - based on the true stories from "nomads of divorce," a tale about a family out of its element and a teenager on the brink of sexual discovery. The Abramowitzes of Beverly Hills provide a skewed portrait of family life in America's city of dreams. Challenged by divorce, addiction and dysfunction--yet still determined to fit in with the "in" crowd--the Abramowitzes survive on the edge...
cast + crew
Director
Murray Abramowitz
Vivian Abramowitz
Eliot
Doris
Belle
Ben Abramowitz
Rickey Abramowitz
Mickey Abramowitz
Rita
Saleslady
Screenplay
reviews
December 8, 2000
Slums of Beverly Hills794 9-3-98
It sounds like a bad TV pilot about a Jewish girl-child, parents divorced, growing up on the shabby side of Beverly Hills in 1976: Vivian (Natasha Lyonne), 15, copes with her ballooning boobs, boys fixated on boobs ("Nice rack, babe"), two brothers (David Krumholtz and Eli Marienthal) with a similar fixation, and a father, Murray (Alan Arkin), who asks that Vivian "put on a brassiere." Murray also asks that his brood move from one tacky apartment to another to… 
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