Down and Out in Beverly Hills Rating: Release Date: 02 March, 2004 Retail Price: $9.99 OUR Price: $9.99 You SAVE: $0.00! Cast: Nick Nolte Bette Midler Richard Dreyfuss Paul Mazursky Complete Cast (9 total)

Down and Out in Beverly Hills Reviews

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Down and Out in Beverly Hills
This movie has timeless humor and is lots of fun. It's widescreen so you don't get a chopped up picture. If they had only included the Little Richard video "Great Gosh A'Mighty" ("It's a Matter of Time") it would be perfect.

Hilarious, but with excessive excess
Nolte's character chooses to end his life by drowning himself in a rich man's pool. The rich man, Richard Dreyfus, saves him from drowning in the pool, and Nolte saves Dreyfus's family from drowning in aimless decadence and excess. Nolte is gruff and likeable; Bette Midler, as Dreyfus's wife, is good-hearted but demanding and confused; Dreyfus is successful and lost; the kids are confused. Everyone helps everyone, and ends up better off.


My only complaint is that, in an attempt to show how decadent and lost Dreyfus is at the beginning of the film, his affair with the maid is shown to us in unnecessary detail. Perhaps this sounds prudish, but the point could have been made in a subtler, more artistic way. Ah, well, nothing is perfect.

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