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Down and Out in Beverly Hills

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Down and Out in Beverly Hills
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R,1hr 43min
Genre:
Comedy
Release:
1986
Director:
Paul Mazursky
Distributor:
Walt Disney Video
Starring:
Nick Nolte, Richard Dreyfuss, Bette Midler  ...more
Synopsis: Down and Out in Beverly Hills is an updated remake of the 1932 Jean Renoir film Boudu Saved From Drowning. Philandering businessman Dave Whiteman (Richard Dreyfuss) rescues scraggly tramp Jerry Baskin (Nick Nolte) from drowning himself in Dave's swimming pool. Much against his will, Jerry is invited to enjoy the hospitality of Dave, his social-climbing wife Barbara Bette Midler, and their sexually ambivalent son Max (Evan Richards). The hapless hobo bonds only with the family dog Matisse, which fascinates ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Costello, AMG Review
Renoir's Boudu Saved From Drowning is the ostensible source of Paul Mazursky's hilarious satire of Beverly Hills affluence, but it seems much more like a comic version of Pasolini's Teorema. The story centers on Jerry (Nick Nolte), a homeless man who is prevented from drowning himself in a Beverly Hills swimming pool by its owner Dave Richard Dreyfuss. Dave takes in the stranger, and it soon appears ... Full Review
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Nick Nolte
Jerry Baskin
Richard Dreyfuss
Dave Whiteman
Bette Midler
Barbara Whiteman
Little Richard
Chris Goodnight, Orvis Goodnight
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