Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)

not your everyday movie
i first saw Slums of Beverly Hills when i was about... 10. Not to mislead anyone [this is NOT a movie for 10 year olds] but i've found that even at that age, it's outlandish humour made an impression. I never really forgot it. It's really just a great original movie with intense sexual undertones. Well, that's being nice, you see about 4 shots of boobs. And at times it may seem ridiculous. Like when some of the more emotional dialogues are spoken in gibberish.

quite recently i decided to buy this movie of my childhood and wouldn't you know it, someone ELSE who had seen it with me the first time, had just as many 'THAT movie' stories [scars] of it as me.

it may be corky, it may be random, but Slums of Beverly Hills paints the picture of a coming to age movie that is just flat out memerable.

Funny
Wonderful 'dramedy' with fantastic acting. A young girl coming into her womanhood is thrown another curveball when her unemployed father must move them in the middle of the night because they can't pay the rent, again. But Vivian's father finds a godsend when Viv's crazy Aunt Rita runs away from the asylum and Uncle Mickey offers to pay his brother to take her in and look after her. Raging hormones are combined with dysfunctional family as young Vivian struggles to find normalcy. There's several flashes of bare breasts and a 'vibrator scene', so beware if you have youngsters.

Chrissy K. McVay - Author

Funny
Wonderful 'dramedy' with fantastic acting. A young girl coming into her womanhood is thrown another curveball when her unemployed father must move them in the middle of the night because they can't pay the rent, again. But Vivian's father finds a godsend when Viv's crazy Aunt Rita runs away from the asylum and Uncle Mickey offers to pay his brother to take her in and look after her. Raging hormones are combined with dysfunctional family as young Vivian struggles to find normalcy. There's several flashes of bare breasts and a 'vibrator scene', so beware if you have youngsters.

Chrissy K. McVay - Author