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movie review - Slums of Beverly Hills

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

In a word? Breasts. From the perspective of a lone daughter in a single-parent family with two brothers, an unemployed father, and no fixed address. With no mother figure, she's been left to figure out her sudden breasts on her own, and she's gotten nowhere. The men in her life are all apparently busy with a variety of schemes, including her brother the incipient actor, her father the suitor of a wealthy widow, and her would-be boyfriend the dope pedlar. Coming to her rescue is her junkie cousin, a woman older by a decade but no further ahead in getting her act together than any other character in the film.

Slums... is funny and entertaining, though a little over-the-top when the writers start fumbling for the heart strings. It's got a great cast and an original story. Yeah!

Recommended.