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Released
1998 · FILM

Slums of Beverly Hills

A teenage girl navigates the chaos of growing up in 1976 as her eccentric, broke Jewish family bounces from one run-down rental on the outskirts of Beverly Hills to another, clinging to dreams in a world that keeps passing them by.

Growing up is hard to do.

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Written by
Runtime
91 min
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

In 1976, a teenage girl faces challenges as she lives with her neurotic, lower-middle-class family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Pamela MartinShot by Tom RichmondScored by Rolfe KentDesigned by Dena Roth

Box Office

1998 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$5.5M

Budget$5.0M
Worldwide gross$5.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $126K 2% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Peak 7 theaters

Also known as

  • Hauptsache Beverly Hillsde
  • Colgados en Beverly Hillses
  • Les Taudis de Beverly Hillsfr
  • L'altra faccia di Beverly Hillsit

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