Movie Review for Down and Out in Beverly Hills
A homeless man is a adopted by a rich family
Nick Nolte is "Down and Out in Beverly Hills," a 1986 film directed and co-written by Paul Mazursky and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Bette Midler, Elizabeth Pena, Niggling Richard, and Tracy Nelson. Nolte is Jerry, a street person so low even his dog leaves him for a kind jogger. While searching for his domestic dog, he stumbles onto the property of Dave and Barbara Whiteman - Whiteman is a clothes hanger king living the expert life in Beverly Hills. Filling his pockets with rocks, Jerry attempts suicide by diving into the Whiteman puddle, but is saved and ultimately taken in by Dave. Jerry isn't specially grateful - he wants Courvoisier instead of the alcohol offered him, and, given dinner, questions the meat on the turkey. Dave, guilty about his wealth, bored with his life, and wanting to do some good, buys Jerry clothes and lets him live at the mansion. He fifty-fifty offers Jerry jobs, which Jerry doesn't accept. Jerry'south history is on the vague side - he speaks of doing the concert pianoforte circuit, he is recognized in a restaurant by as a author, perhaps he did some interim...hard to know. Earlier long, he'due south taken over the unabridged household, becoming the only i in the house that the Whiteman'due south psychologically disturbed dog, Matisse, tin can tolerate, Barbara Whiteman's masseuse and the homo who finds her G-spot, the lover of housekeeper Carmen (Pena) afterward Dave goes back to sleeping with Barbara, the man who gets the Whiteman'due south anorexic daughter (Nelson) to autumn in love with him and commencement eating; and the man who convinces the androgynous Whiteman son to come out to his parents. Too late, Dave realizes he's Dr. Frankenstein, and Jerry is the monster.
This is an entertaining motion picture with dark undertones and good performances, especially from Nolte, Dreyfuss, Midler, Pena and Mike (Matisse the dog). Little Richard is a riot as a neighbor. Nolte is in great shape here, as is Midler, who looks fantastic. The party scene toward the terminate of the film where Dreyfuss chases Nolte throughout the firm and grounds is quite funny. The ending isn't the best, but it's a fun watch anyhow.
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Entertaining comedy with scene-stealing domestic dog
"Down and Out in Beverly Hills" is a very funny 1986 comedy from director Paul Mazursky. Nick Nolte stars as a down-and-out bum who one day, after his dog leaves him and goes to live somewhere else, tries to drown himself in the swimming pool of a rich couple. The human being of the business firm (played delightfully past Richard Dreyfuss) saves his live and decides to take him in despite the objections of his wife (played wonderfully by Bette Midler). The bum becomes an influence over everybody in the household. Plus, their domestic dog starts to dearest the bum. There are big laughs throughout the film, though the movie is a little less funny than Bette Midler'due south other 1986 comedy "Ruthless People". Still, "Down and Out" has some terrific performances from Midler, Dreyfuss, Nolte, and the rest of the supporting cast. But the existent scene-stealer here is the performance past Mike the Canis familiaris as Matisse, the canine with a dog psychiatrist. Mike gives one of the best performances by an fauna of all-time.
***i/2 (out of four)
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An American Remake of a French Comedy Featuring a Winning Cast...
DOWN & OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS is a smart American remake of the French film BONDU SAVED FROM DROWNING updated to modern day Beverly Hills. In this version, a homeless human being accidentally wanders onto the holding of a wealthy Beverly Hills family and tries to drown himself in their puddle. Upon rescue, the family takes compassion on him and take him in but the bum gets a little too comfy and begins bitter the mitt that feeds him (in more ways than one). Nick Nolte gives a stone solid performance as Jerry, the homeless bum who ends up running the Whiteman home. Nolte has rarely been so convincing in a part...plainly he spent several weeks on the streets of LA pretending to be homeless in preparation for the part. Richard Dreyfuss plays Dave Whiteman, the wealthy owner of a hanger visitor who takes Jerry in and initially envies Jerry'due south liberty before Jerry goes too far. Bette Midler is very funny as Dave'due south social climbing wife Barbara and Tracy Nelson plays their snooty higher student daughter. Evan Richards also has some funny moments as the Whiteman son, Max. Paul Mazursky's spirited direction (Mazursky as well cameos as i of Dave's fat-cat friends)and a clever screenplay help to make this i of the more entertaining comedy confections from the eighty's. There is also a scene-stealing functioning by a dog named Mike, who plays the Whiteman family unit pet, Matisse.
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Great acting and casting provide plenty of laughs.
Sure it hasn't dated all that well, but wait at this 1986 hit as a overnice time capsule of Fifty.A. from that time period. A period that basically ended with the sobering and terrifying riots of 1992. Down and Out in Beverly Hills deals with a well-to-practice even so dysfunctional family having its priorities rearranged past a bum who kickoff attempts to drown himself in their swimming pool. Nick Nolte, looking merely a little scruffier than his 2002 Hawai'ian shirt mugshot plays the Jerry Baskin graphic symbol on different levels. Early on he seems much similar the typical run of the factory schizophrenic homeless person chasing afterward a dog who found himself a improve owner. Then, subsequently his dunk in the pool, we run across that he is actually quite intelligent and observant. Almost instantly he sees what is incorrect with anybody in the household. He just tin can't seem to point whatever of that intellect toward improving his own situation. Even when information technology is laying in that location right in front of him.
The patriarch of the family unit is Dave Whiteman who embodies some of Richard Dreyfuss'southward amend piece of work. He is very successful, yet he it just as well uptight. Something seems lacking for him. It isn't the appearance of the bum that sets him off. He actually is the i who about wants him to stay if perhaps to alive vicariously through him in some means. Bette Middler is on hand as Dave's sexually unfulfilled wife who by and large spends her time with worthless self-help gurus. She even has one hired for their cutesy little dog. Nolte is patently the simply human being effectually who has what it takes to recharge her batteries in bed! The family has an attractive yet obviously anorexic daughter and an androgynous son. A sexpot Hispanic maid is likewise on hand for Dave to employ at his will... that is until Nolte moves in on her every bit well. The film takes place over most a month'due south time and in that location actually isn't much plot to speak of other than seeing how these characters are altered by Nolte's grapheme.
The pic has several funny moments, and thankfully Ms. Middler is not allowed to sing too much. The theme vocal by the Talking Heads is always welcome to the human being ear. Some of the comedy, mostly involving the cutesy dog reactions and Little Richard's exasperated yelling are more annoying than anything else. At that place are some corking performances and many funny observations almost successful Angelinos at that time. Non much of a bulletin to exist learned from any of it, however. Mayhap that is why it works. eight of 10 stars.
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First-class all around
Still funny upon seeing information technology the 2d time - 20 years after its first-run viewing. Every character is likable - Nolte, Dreyfuss and Midler in the starring roles, and every 1 of the primary co-star and the supporting cast.
Nolte is an outstanding role player, and this role and his harder-edged graphic symbol in the bang-up "North Dallas Forty," are amid his very best. Many actors exhibit far different personalities off-screen than "on" ( e.g. Nicholson), or are downright goofy in real life (Prowl, Jolle, Affleck/Lopez, etc.). But I've never seen whatsoever whom I wish might be more like his on-screen persona than Nolte. The guy has charisma, believability, and is completely likable in every role.
Hither, he staggers, pretty much literally, homeless, into the mansion of a Beverly Hills wealthy family as dysfunctional (although pleasantly so) as any on the planet.
Of class, his presence and "counsel" take care of all their neuroses - bringing a relaxed enjoyment of life to Dreyfuss, a reawakening of sexual delight in Midler, enjoyment (and relief from anorexia/bulimia) to the winsome daughter, direction to the frustrated adolescent son, happiness to the sexy Latino maid, and effecting a change in the family pooch to where he tin can now savor the pleasant life of a contented, happy pet.
The diversions and howdy-jinks in the story are also pleasant - often these necessary components of a film tin backbite - and the as necessary closing events lead to a pleasant rapprochement and a happy ending.
An excellent, "feel skilful" viewing experience.
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How did I get here?
When Nick Nolte was arrested for DUI in 2002 and they published his mug shot flick I thought it was Jerry Baskin. I commencement saw this moving picture during it'southward initial theatrical release and found it very amusing. This is a re-telling of playwright René Fauchois' Boudu sauvé des eaux that was made into a film in 1932. In this story the rescued drowning man is played past Nick Nolte who is a down and out erstwhile actor who is homeless and had but one friend, his devious dog. He can't discover his dog and wanders into the backyard of a Beverly Hills dysfunctional and affluent family where he plans to end information technology all by drowning in their pond pool. Homeowner Richard Dreyfuss comes to the rescue and the homeless human being, Jerry becomes a wanted and unwanted invitee in their abode. Bette Midler is Dreyfuss' wife, Tracy Nelson is the daughter, Evan Richards is the son, Elizabeth Pena is the maid and Picayune Richard is the next-door-neighbour. A fun situational comedy, the screenplay was written by Paul Mazursky and Leon Capetanos who collaborated on several films with Mazursky. Mazursky is a multi-talented director/writer/producer/actor who likewise appears in this movie. He got wrote and produced I Dear You lot Alice B. Toklis then went on to big success as the manager of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. In the 70'south he had another notable films that he directed including Harry and Tonto and An Single Woman but his only film of note in the 80'south was Moscow on the Hudson and after Down and Out in Beverly Hills directed but vii other films of footling note and his writing creativity seems to have stalled to equally he only wrote four more screenplays in the past 20 years. Cinematographer Donald Mcalpine is this flick's lensman. He's had recent success with Chronicles of Narnia. Some of his other films include Mrs. Doubtfire, Predator, My Bright Career and Billow Morant. Andy Summers of the rock band the Police provides the music score. The Talking Heads vocal Once in a Lifetime which was 6 years old was used as the theme song of the film and it all of a sudden became a charting single. This is a good pic if yous've never seen it and a proficient look back to the fourscore's. I would give information technology an 8.0 out of 10.
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Infectious fun
This isn't i of Mazursky's better, serious films but information technology is an awful lot of fun nevertheless and it stays in the memory. It'southward an American reworking of Renoir's "Boudu sauve des eaux" and in the role of the scampish tramp it has the peachy Nick Nolte who looks like a disheveled behave. He's the Boudu character rescued by Beverly Hills businessman Richard Dreyfuss who is as genial and as soft as a poached egg and who radiates goodness. He's the kind of homo who feels he has to set the globe to rights simply isn't pushy enough to practise it. That tin't be said of his jiggly wife, Bette Midler, who is brash, lewd and who seems to be wearing dresses several sizes likewise pocket-sized for her. Midler moves similar a mini tornado and her performance has some of the energy of her phase shows. Between them, Nolte, Dreyfuss and Midler bring combined wit and intelligence to the material. They seem to be having a right old time and their pleasure is infectious. Mazursky keeps things on a depression boil and lets his players have their rein. It'south to our advantage.
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Fun And Games In Beverly Hills
I may not know what's funny, only I know what I like. I thought this movie was absolutely hilarious. I don't know, or care if it is supposed to be a satire or non. Between the son and the dog and the neighbour and the anorexic daughter and the maid, not to mention the three main characters, there are many funny moments. Nick Nolte, insinuating himself on this dysfunctional family, headed by Richard Dreyfuss and Bette Midler, appears to steer them all in the right direction, with plenty of nice moments along the mode.
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Paul Mazursky's career may have its ups and downs, but this is an up.
Subsequently years playing singular souls, Nick Nolte got a comic office in "Down and Out in Beverly Hills". He plays homeless Jerry Baskin, who later on losing his dog decides to drown himself in a swimming pool. He might have succeeded, had the pool's owner Dave Whiteman (Richard Dreyfuss) non seen him. So, Dave takes Jerry into his posh Beverly Hills firm, with some pretty wild consequences.
Perchance overall, this movie isn't anything really special, merely it does have some funny scenes. Bette Midler is just great every bit Dave's unfulfilled married woman Barbara, who finds new fulfillment with Jerry. I really liked the beach scene. Information technology's a pretty funny movie, and it shows that, while director Paul Mazursky's - who has a supporting office in the movie - career may be uneven, he tin can certainly do good movies. As well starring Petty Richard and Elizabeth Pena.
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fun skewering the Hills
Barbara (Bette Midler) and Dave Whiteman (Richard Dreyfuss) are a wealthy Beverly Hills couple. He makes clothes hangers and is sleeping with the maid Carmen (Elizabeth Peña). She'due south obsessed with gurus and new age stuff. Their son Max is bitter with them and always filming with his camera. Their daughter Jenny (Tracy Nelson) is away at college with eating problems. The family is weird Hollywood and even the dog has a psychiatrist. Jerry Baskin (Nick Nolte) is a bum. His canis familiaris has left him. He tries to drown in Whitemans' pool. Dave rescues him and invites the not-so-grateful homeless human being to stay. Orvis Goodnight (Fiddling Richard) is the adjacent door neighbor.
Information technology'southward interesting that grumpy Nick Nolte is not likable at the beginning. It's as well interesting that he becomes more than likable as Dave becomes more angry at him. At first, information technology concern me where the movie was going with the character. Information technology may not hit with big laughs but it'due south biting in skewering the Hollywood stereotypes. In the end, it'south a fun time with some memorable characters.
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Very funny comedy
Quite fabulous, actually, and very well done how one homo unintentionally changes the lives of so many people. Information technology truly is laugh-out-loud hilarious at times. A very skilful cast does a wonderful chore in creating a feel-good one-act classic! The dog, Matisse, steals the show, though!
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Keen Fun!
Based on a French play, 'Down and Out in Beverly Hills' is slap-up fun! An engaging film that comes in-tact with a well-done screenplay & knock-out performances by its superb bandage.
'Downwards and Out in Beverly Hills' Synopsis: A millionaire adopts a homeless bum only to make things become crazy.
'Down and Out in Beverly Hills' is entertaining from start to end. Sure, there are some loose ends in the writing, but for the virtually part, the film works largely. The Adjusted Screenplay is well-done & pretty funny also. Paul Mazursky's Direction is crisp. Cinematography, Editing & Art Design, are fabulously done.
Functioning-Wise: Nick Nolte is just flawless as the homeless bum. He emerges a scene-stealer hither! Richard Dreyfuss & Bette Milder are excellent, likewise. The on-screen chemical science between Dreyfuss & Midler is, electric!
On the whole, 'Down and Out in Beverly Hills' succeeds.
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80s-ness to the max
The first time I watched this I must take been 8 or ix, and I peculiarly remember enjoying Carmen'southward scenes... I might not have understood much of the residual of the plot back and then... Watching it once more subsequently thirty+ years, I honey its 80s-ness. The plot may not be super-complicated, but I think it criticizes very nicely, in a lighthearted way, a dysfunctional family model that is nevertheless around today and has probably always been. I enjoy watching these movies in a celebrated sense likewise. My first idea of the Union Mission scene was how everyone was just sitting waiting there without having a cell phone to play with. Or the existence of electric tin openers (I have honestly never seen one of these anywhere else in my life). Or the multiple pay phones. And Richard Dreyfuss was 39 in this movie? Wow. He looks closer to 50 (it's the white pilus and moustache). Lastly, sorry to read most Elizabeth Peña. 55 is definitely too young.
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y'all tin can exist poor, you can exist rich, you can be.. happy ..
you can exist poor, y'all tin exist rich, you can be.. happy ..
This is a actually cool movie. The first time I saw it, a few years ago, I enjoyed information technology then much .. I've seen information technology over and over.. and I tin still apreciatte it ..
Nick Nolte does a actually prissy task playing a man without a home, only who has certain happyness and good street friends. The scene on the beach shows that really well. And Richard D's character also gets that.. In the other side a rich, but not then happy family. Nick Nolte brings hapyness to the family unit .. proving that coin isn't always happyness..
It'due south a really practiced film, hope it gets out on DVD R2 at my country ASAP..
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Save a Bum, Salvage your Family unit
Was this flick supposed to accept a point? Was information technology supposed to be funny? Was it supposed to be eccentric?
It was a swing and a miss on all fronts.
A bum attempts to drown himself in Dave Whiteman's pool. Dave (Richard Dreyfuss) does the heroic thing and saves the drowning vagrant. Then, inexplicably, he gives the homeless homo, Jerry (Nick Nolte), room and board. From at that place Jerry blesses everyone and everything. Whatever was bilious each fellow member of the family and associates Jerry fixed. He doled out advice, orgasms, and apples and for that he became irreplaceable.
I couldn't tell where this pic was headed and even at the end I was scratching my head. Dave's dumb wacked out family couldn't cope without a flamboyant bum. Delight.
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Sunny, light and fairly amusing happy-get-lucky one-act.
`Down & Out in Beverly Hills' is a skillful film in retrospect. It's 1 of those bright, `just for fun' comedies that existed between 1982 and 1992. Sadly this genre that consisted of feel good movies such every bit `L.A. Story', `Mr. Destiny' and `My Blue Heaven' doesn't exist in the fast moving world of today. Anyway, the film isn't perfect and has enough of bad flaws.
Ane of the problems is the fashion the film grips at the start, just into the final half-hour, it begins to ramble and loses your attention. It could have done with some rather un-necessary scenes being excised. In the supporting cast, the interim standard is a bit ropey. Even though the movie is merely 99 minutes, it simply barely going into overlength and getting too nonsensical. Just one more quibble- the title. Surely they could accept come upwards with something a flake more attractive than `Downwardly & Out in Beverly Hills'. Simply the film isn't completely marred by these flaws.
The acting standard is quite good. Back in the days when we could understand what he was maxim, Nick Nolte gives a terrifically eccentric performance as the happy-get-lucky tramp brought into this fashionable environment. Richard Dreyfuss and Bette Midler are quite skilful in their respective roles every bit the neurotic husband and the spoilt rich wife. While the residuum of the acting isn't anything higher up adequate, the characters themselves are likeable. With the flamboyantly effeminate teenage son, the anorexic girl and fifty-fifty a rather pointless cameo from rock & ringlet superstar Little Richard.
Fifty-fifty if it tends to bumble a bit towards the end, the theme song (One time in A Lifetime) starts and ends the motion picture on a good note, leaving yous with nothing just memories of the skillful things in the movie. In that location are some flaws in the narrative and in general, but if you lot don't accept the picture seriously, then you'll probably like it. I did and I though it was good. So I give it half dozen.4/x.
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A Rich, Bette, and a 'bum' in Beverly Hills
The fact that this movie was nominated for awards and only took i of the 4 or 5 nominations, is merely perplexing. Bette was fun and did a good task, she was nominated. Dreyfus, was superb as Dave Whiteman, tongue-in-cheek, I love it! Richard Dreyfus was not nominated. But 'Nolte' equally the Bum Baskin, 'Jerry', should have at least been nominated, that is absurd that he wasn't, in light of a 'capitol' performance! I had not seen this picture show in many years. I had seen then many others and idea most viewing this over again, when I finally bought the DVD, I was blown abroad! This movie hasn't lost and inch of it's original comedic height.
Nolte (Jerry Baskin) looked as if with every step he took, that he was virtually to fall off the cease of the earth. He looked similar a street guy with atrophy in his muscles, from sleeping on sidewalks. He played downward and out and 'bum' to the very edge. Information technology was the best bum in any story that I have seen or could remember. I was interested in following this grapheme through more than one or two scenes. For instance, in the park, staggering through later the absence was felt in regard to his 'Little tan dog' he bellowed out questions to passers by then, plant himself at the mall. While inside, he abruptly inquired to the patrons interrupting their conversations and meals with no awareness or understanding as to what'southward going on with anyone, only himself.
And then afterward when he's escorted out past two mall security guardsmen, his reactions, words and inflections were just 'picture' perfect. I have worked in places where there were many a transient at times and 'Nolte' being that character, with his mental attitude and abilities, just became, 'King'. In addition the two lead characters have something in common...domestic dog problems! 'Matise'(Mike the dog) steals role of the show and chews on it a little. It was a anarchism when he got 'insensed' at 'Footling Richard' and became a little broken-hearted!! This little fellow, is a double-threat...'cute' and 'funny' too. He is a great supporting k-nine cast member. Mike does a swell job every bit the family unit pet who ends upwardly as jerry's petty side kick.
Not as well far downwardly the line, the introduction to 'the family' through Dave was a classic movie theatre moment in modern times. He 'up-ends' the whole apple cart, here. The even funnier parts are how things eventually turn and shift for Ole' Dave. I enjoyed the politically wrong wit and precipitous comedic retorts. The characters are developed to a 'T' and they interact and play out in accented excellence. I would but recommend this to people that volition understand and bask a hard driving politically wrong motion picture, with the enjoyable cynicism that this has. Merely even for those not well versed in movie intellect, this i is difficult to miss, information technology actually drives it home! It'southward infectious and in a way very timeless in some of the overtones.
I rate it a X. (****)
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Lacks spice and urgency, downward but not out
Downwardly and Out in Beverly Hills features an excellent bandage doing probably their each individual best work. The casting itself is pitch perfect right down to the 2 dogs. Simply I believe the problem stems from the direction. The films claims it'due south a one-act, when really, it'south a chuckle-delivering drama. I think director Paul Mazursky accidentally made the premise a bit too serious.
You know how people say a film is "love it or hate it?" I think Down and Out in Beverly Hills is "dear it or accept it." I think of these kinds of films sort of every bit "elegant comedies" where the sets and actors are very swish, just it's questionable you'd desire to see a picture with those kind of characters. Other movies I believe fit into my sub-genre are Arthur and Vehement Creatures. They aren't bad films, only I don't believe the characters are interesting plenty to comport the weight of a full length pic on their backs.
The plot: A rich family'due south life is changed when a bum tries to commit suicide in their backyard pool. The family is made wealthy because the husband, Dave Whiteman (Dreyfuss), is the caput of a coat-hanger factory. His wife Barbara (Midler) is happy with the wealth, but unsatisfied as a person. Her and Dave's relationship is complex and she is more than often than not left unfulfilled by her husband.
The bum is played fantastically by Nick Nolte. His name is Jerry, and after his "faithful" dog companion runs away to detect a home with a jogger, Jerry jumps in the Whitemans' pool when it is draining to endeavor and kill himself. Seconds away from existence gone, Dave jumps in to save the human being and to revitalize him equally a human being to brand him happier in life.
An deed of function reversal is made here where the happier half is the bum and the sadder half is the wealthy family, then the film gives a sincere expect at how some people live their lives and how some are happier than others. The problem is merely in the way information technology'southward executed which is hard to explain. It's hokey and non as inspired as it would seem.
Paul Mazurksy has a talent for squeezing the most out of his actors and giving them constant, incorruptible, shockingly well-congenital chemical science. Later in his career, he provided the same chemistry to Woody Allen and Bette Midler in Scene from a Mall, a movie that besides the chemistry, has little to offer. The setup between the three leads is anything simply contrived and highly welcomed as they each requite their ain sense of screen magic.
So, what is wrong with Down and Out in Beverly Hills? It'south honestly hard to say. I sabbatum through the whole matter, no interruptions, and upon finishing it I reached a quandary. I didn't know if I liked what I just watched. Sitting downward, writing this hasn't helped much either. I think information technology's one of those films that is beautiful, warm, and gentle, but that's it. There's nothing wrong with that if that's what you're looking for, but there isn't much urgency or attraction equipped in the script. Just a bunch of characters wandering around, awaiting the next predicament to autumn into.
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Bette Midler, and Nick Nolte. Directed by: Paul Mazursky.
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Truly An Underrated One-act Gem From The Beautiful 80'south
"Down & out in Beverly Hills" is truly a long lost & forgotten Comedy Jewel from the greatest decade for films, The Cute 80's!!!
This superb motion-picture show Never always gets mentioned? Such a shame considering it'southward a real treasure & treat.
I'1000 lucky considering we had this on video back in the twenty-four hour period considering we've always loved the vivid RICHARD DREYFUSS (Jaws, Shut Encounters, Stakeout, Another Stakeout, What About Bob?) The guy is truly one of the greatest to bless movie history.
Nick Nolte (48 Hrs) plays Jerry, a downwardly & out hobo surviving on the streets of sunny Beverly Hills with his trivial dog but one day afterwards losing his lilliputian companion he tries to drown himself in the pool of a beautiful mansion owned by Richard Dreyfuss & Bette Midler, both requite absolutely hilarious, fun & energetic performances equally the "yuppie" couple who have all sorts of issues going on behind airtight doors. At present Nolte is saved by nice guy millionaire Dave (Dreyfuss) & a kind of friendship starts with the two men from very unlike backgrounds but not everything is what it seems & all kinds of Hilarious situations happen. Jerry is a real charming grapheme & once moves into the family unit mansion he "kindly" turns Daves already messed up world upside down. This is a fun "Situation" comedy virtually letting someone into your life & your abode without really knowing them & how that person tin mess with everything in your life. There'south obviously other themes also about different Classes of people with the rich & the poor but what i actually liked was that Money really doesn't matter, it only helps.
Dreyfuss is on top stressed- comedic form & no one does that fast talking stressed guy routine better than him, only watch the other underrated One-act Gem he'south in WHAT ABOUT BOB?
This is such a fun pure 80's comedy that shows both sides of living in Los Angeles & that money doesn't mean everything.
The cast is first-class especially Nolte, Dreyfuss & Midler who all requite such memorable performances & lift the film up to "Classic" fabric hither & a perfect late-dark flick.
This film always puts a grin on my confront.
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hello invitee book!
i love that flick :-) i watched down and nether in Beverly hills at the age of 15 over and over again. (maybe about 50 times!!) (Goggle box)~~~~~~~~ (-:~ by at present i am 29. one twelvemonth agone i got the DVD and even now again, i watched the film already 3 times again.
to me the beauty in that move is: exactly all those gaps in between of the characters in that picture give it a wondrous atmosphere. i love the way the rugged gets lost inside the family without having any attachments towards the offers he gets from everybody. he remains completely non attracted.
a like feeling i got from "barfly" - Mickey Rouke being an alcoholic "bar-boxer" (-: cu? * David
In Deutschland "Downward and out in Beverly Hills" is known by the title: Zoff in Beverly Hills)
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Very basic and not all that funny...
Rich couple Richard Dreyfuss and Bette Midler have to cope with their teenage son whose dream is to become a filmmaker, a niggling canis familiaris...and a homeless bum of the streets (Nick Nolte) who has decided to move into their house. Long story. Unfortunately, getting there isn't all that fun. The gags are all very routine - I laughed a handful of times. Dreyfuss and Midler and Nolte are all superb actors (well, good actors, anyway), which makes me wonder why they signed onto this.
* * 1/two out of * * * * *
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Rambling, empty film.
This supposed "satire" lacks two things that are essential for a satire: a target and a purpose. The fact that it's fifty-fifty today considered to be a "satire" is extremely puzzling; I wonder if there is i person who saw this moving picture and understood what exactly this motion picture was meant to satirize. But the movie has other problems, besides its utter pointlessness; the virtually serious one is that it's rarely funny. Information technology adds up to a rambling drove of episodes, most of which are passable and watchable enough, but none of which is funny or meaningful or potent enough to end the pic from sinking. A waste of time.
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A Must See For Bette Fans!
Bette is great in this film. The plot is very funny and is even more enjoyable by the actors. How this never got any Oscars is beyond me.
Every time I watch this it but gets funnier and funnier. The humor is handled in such a classy way and plays out so well that you just accept to love information technology. A great film.
10/10
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Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Fun satire from director Mazursky with all three stars giving their best, especially Dreyfuss, who made a truthful comeback with this as a ritzy neurotic who saves bum Nolte's life, and so watches as his life and earth are turned upside down. Expert clean fun!
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fun on many levels!
The talent that came together for this movie.... pretty amazing. Richard Dreyfuss, about ten years later Goodbye Daughter and Shut Encounters. Bette Midler had already done the Rose. Tracy Nelson. Nick Nolte. When Jerry the vagrant comes into the lives of a rich, upper form family in Beverly Hills, he seems to exist helping everyone, simply he shortly wears out his welcome. some fun music from Petty Richard, since he'due south hither too. it's very upbeat, the whole way through... even in the slower, sad moments, information technology'south clever, fun, and not meant to be taken too seriously. and some nifty music from the 1980s. this is a fun ane to watch. Directed by Paul Mazursky. he's also the accountant! Sadly, Elizabeth Peña (plays Carmen).. died so immature at 55. original story Boudu Saved from the Waters...by writer René Fauchois. THAT one is as well bachelor on dvd, from the 1932 french film, and information technology's as well really good!
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