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Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
★ 6.3 · 257 ratings on TMDB
Growing up is hard to do.
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.
DirectorTamara Jenkins
The emergence reading
Slums of Beverly Hills keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
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Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
