Slums of Beverly Hills

Slums of Beverly Hills

Growing up is hard to do.

199891 min6.3 / 10

A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age comedy-drama set in 1970s Beverly Hills that balances humor and heartache as a teenage girl navigates family dysfunction, adolescent awakening, and the instability of nomadic living.

In 1976, a teenage girl struggles to cope while living with her neurotic lower-middle-class family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.

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