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    Down And Out In Beverly Hills (1985)

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    Based on a 1932 French movie entitled Boudu Saved From Drowning, and the very first R-rated picture ever to come out of that bastion of squeaky-cleanness, Walt Disney Studios (under the aegis of their subsidiary Touchstone).

    Dave Whiteman (Dreyfuss) has made it big in the coat hanger business. He and wife Barbara (Midler) live in a huge house in Beverly Hills with their children, Jenny (Nelson), an anorexic college student, and Max (Richards), an androgynous budding filmmaker.

    Barbara is the ultimate yenta who spends her days having her hair and nails done, shopping, and going to classes.

    Also living in the house are Carmen (Pena), a seductive Latino maid with whom Dave is having an affair, and Matisse (Mike), the family dog who refuses to eat despite regular visits to a doggie psychiatrist.

    When tramp Jerry Baskin (Nolte) enters their lives after attempting to drown himself in the Whiteman swimming pool, Dave saves his life and invites him to become part of the family, a decision that has some very comic results.

    Although the ending is softened from Renoir’s original, this garishly coloured film succeeds quite well on its own terms. The film is full of moments both surprising (Jerry showing Matisse that his dog food is eminently eatable) and entertainingly predictable (Jerry getting intimately involved with several family members and an “everyone into the pool” sequence).

    The movie was adapted into a sitcom in 1987 with Tim Thomerson playing middle-aged tramp Jerry Baskin who enters the lives of a Beverly Hills couple played by Hector Elizondo and Anita Morris.

    Jerry Baskin
    Nick Nolte
    Barbara Whiteman
    Bette Midler
    Dave Whiteman
    Richard Dreyfuss
    Jenny Whiteman
    Tracy Nelson
    Max Whiteman
    Evan Richards
    Mel Whiteman
    Jack Bruskoff
    Sadie Whiteman
    Geraldine Dreyfuss
    Orvis Goodnight
    Little Richard
    Carmen
    Elizabeth Peña
    Dr Von Zimmer
    Donald F Muhich
    Pearl Waxman
    Valerie Curtin
    Sidney Waxman
    Paul Mazursky
    Lou Waltzberg
    Barry Primus
    Sheila Waltzberg
    Irene Tsu
    Roxanne
    Sue Kiel
    Al
    Felton Perry
    Tom Tom
    Eloy Casados

    Director
    Paul Mazursky

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