Slums of Beverly Hills

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

Cast

Natasha Lyonne

as Vivian Abromowitz

Alan Arkin

as Murray Samuel Abromowitz

Marisa Tomei

as Rita Abromowitz

Eli Marienthal

as Rickey Abromowitz

David Krumholtz

as Ben Abromowitz

Kevin Corrigan

as Eliot Arenson

Jessica Walter

as Doris

Mena Suvari

as Rachel Hoffman

Carl Reiner

as Mickey

Harris Laskawy

as Charlie the Cook

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