SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS 1996 Original Movie Script Natasha Lyonne Tamara Jenkins

  

Tamara Jenkins' debut film before anyone knew her name - this ICM script captures the moment a distinctive voice was about to announce itself to Hollywood. Natasha Lyonne's breakout role, a coming of age story that holds up completely.

Early drafts from debut films by directors who went on to significant careers are among the most sought after documents in the category. Guaranteed Vintage and Original as issued. Comes with COA from the Museum of Mom and Pop Culture! ICM Xerox - Stiff Covers - 130 Double-Print White Pages - Re-Write Draft - Nov.

15, 1996 - Screenplay by Tamara Jenkins. There are pen notations on Ben's lines - Ostensibly, this ICM script was used in the casting for that part - Ben was eventually played by David Krumholtz. OVERALL CONDITION: See Photos - Front Cover has some wear, not bad - Back cover is blemished as shown with some bleed into the inside of back cover and last page - also shown. Appears to have been some liquid involved and the last few pages have a very light wrinkle.

We don't think you will be disappointed in this ground-breaking comedy. HISTORICAL INFORMATION: Slums of Beverly Hills is a 1998 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Tamara Jenkins, and starring Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, David Krumholtz, Kevin Corrigan, Jessica Walter, and Carl Reiner.

The story follows a teenage girl (Lyonne) struggling to grow up in 1976 in a lower-middle-class nomadic Jewish family that relocates every few months. The film is loosely based on writer-director Tamara Jenkins' experiences as a youth moving around different apartments in the Beverly Hills area with her lower-middle-class family. Jenkins wrote the script at the Sundance Filmmakers' Lab, where Sundance founder Robert Redford got hold of her screenplay and expressed interest in producing it. Redford said he related to Jenkins' experiences of having grown up as an'outsider'...

Not at all a member of the club but a sideline observer from the wrong side of the tracks. Redford is credited as an executive producer on the film.

Reviewers have praised the 1970s production design, the humor, and the acting as "dead-on". Roger Ebert awarded the film three out of four, and said of lead actress Natasha Lyonne, [she] has the film's most important role, and is the key to the comedy. She does a good job of looking incredulous, and there's a lot in her life to be incredulous about. She also has a nice pragmatic approach to sexuality, as in a scene where she consults a plastic surgeon about on-the-spot breast reduction. San Francisco Chronicle reviewer Ruthe Stein stated, While touching on serious issues such as loss, this coming-of-age story is first and foremost a comedy, and a hilarious one at that.

It never strains to be funny. The humor derives from the deadpan responses of family members to circumstances beyond their control. " She also wrote, "Set in the mid-'70s, Slums gets the period right, from the burnt orange shag carpet on the floor of the family's temporary digs to the dorky clothes and extreme hairstyles. Even the saleslady who sells Vivian her first bra has the overly made-up look of the time.

The Abramowitzes' behavior when they go out to eat-complaining about the service and that there's too much salt in the food-may seem to border on a Jewish stereotype. But it's also dead-on. Accolades Award Category Nominee(s) Result Ref. ALMA Awards Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film in a Crossover Role Rita Moreno Nominated American Comedy Awards Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Marisa Tomei Nominated Chicago Film Critics Association Awards Most Promising Actress Natasha Lyonne Nominated Independent Spirit Awards Best First Feature Tamara Jenkins, Michael Nozik, Stan Wlodkowski Nominated Best First Screenplay Tamara Jenkins Nominated Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie Breakout Natasha Lyonne Nominated Most Funniest Scene Scene: Natasha Lyonne and Marisa Tomei dancing with a vibrator Nominated YoungStar Awards Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Comedy Film Eli Marienthal Nominated. In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope with living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.

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