Saw The Slums of Beverly Hills (thanks, Nina!) It was a cute coming of age film about a girl who is described as underaged despite looking 20-something. She has recently undergone a growth spurt and must navigate the tricky change from girl to woman with no mother, sister, or even permanent residence. Her family consists of a broke 65-year-old father and two brothers who have made her into their emotional punching bag. The brothers are introduced as complete antagonists but soften into mere doofuses by the end of the film.
Anyway, into this mix is dropped the drug-addicted, dildo-possessing cousin of the protagonist. The cousin plays a dual role of experienced worldly teacher and complete fuck-up who must be babysat. The film essentially is just watching this quintet of father, two brothers, cousin and protagonist go on adventures as they pathetically struggle to attain the lifestyle they all believe they deserve. The father insists they're staying in Beverly Hills for the good school but we never see any of them go to any school even once.
The film starts off by portraying this as delusion and denial and indeed there is some very troubling stuff which comes to light by the end of the film, but we conclude finally with the protagonist realizing that this is just a game of make-believe. Everyone knows what's really going on, they just... pretend. And that's how they cope and the film defies us to find fault with their coping mechanisms. Also there's a lot of tits. I think there were like five boob-shots, so there's that.
I enjoyed this film. It was queasily awkward at times but was overall loveable and winning.
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