Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills

1989
R
1h 43min

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Robert Beltran, Jacqueline Bisset, Paul Bartel, Ed Begley Jr., Wallace Shawn, Mary Woronov, Paul Mazursky, Edith Diaz, Barret Oliver, Rebecca Schaeffer, Ray Sharkey, and Arnetia Walker in Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989)

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueThe widow's houseboy and the divorcee's chauffeur bet on which will bed the other's employer first.The widow's houseboy and the divorcee's chauffeur bet on which will bed the other's employer first.The widow's houseboy and the divorcee's chauffeur bet on which will bed the other's employer first.

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Récompenses
- 1 victoire et 1 nomination au total

Anecdotes
After seeing the object of his obsession in this film, in which she appeared in bed with a male actor, Robert John Bardo decided there and then that actress Rebecca Schaeffer should die. After getting her home address in Los Angeles, Bardo showed up on her doorstep on July 18, 1989 with a .357 Magnum revolver and confronted the young actress. After getting her autograph, Bardo wandered off but returned an hour later. He rang her doorbell and when Schaeffer responded, Bardo shot her, point blank, in the chest. She screamed "why?!" before collapsing in a pool of blood. Her murder woke Hollywood up to the dangers of stalkers towards celebrities. Bardo is serving a life sentence, without the possibility of parole, for the murder. The Driver's Protection Privacy Act was subsequently enacted in 1994 because Bardo was able to pay a private investigator a small fee to obtain Schaeffer's address from the DMV.

Citations
To-Bel: [to her husband] A few months ago, your buddy Howard, here, did some exploration of certain dark parts of my continent.
Howard: I don't know what you're talking about. I never met this woman before in my life.
To-Bel: The fuck you didn't! Dr. Doolittle, here, went so deep into areas unexplored by your feeble playwrightin' ass, that I got to thinkin' he was Lewis *and* Clark.

Crédits fous
After the introductory credits the following can be found: 'for L.B. who might have smiled'

Connexions
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade/Miracle Mile/Pink Cadillac/Road House/Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989)

Bandes originales
Happy Birthday to You
Written by Mildred J. Hill and Patty S. Hill

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7/10

Another offbeat satire from the writer/director of "Eating Raoul"

Paul Bartel's final film as both writer/director feels consistent with his earlier black comic outings ("Death Race 2000," "Eating Raoul," etc.). Set in Beverly Hills among the rich and beautiful, the film follows a houseboy and a chauffeur betting who their recently widowed employer, Jacqueline Bisset, will bed next. The cast is a good one, which includes Ray Sharkey, Mary Woronov, Ed Begley Jr., Wallace Shawn, Bartel, Paul Mazursky, Barret Oliver, and an uncredited Little Richard, but it's really Bartel's unique voice as co-writer/director that makes this farcical sex comedy uniquely enjoyable. Bartel's plot set-up could easily have been a standard 80s sex comedy along the lines of "Class" or "My Tutor," but Bartel's exaggerated soap opera tone to the boundary pushing humor make it a hilariously mannered comedy that doesn't feel far off from John Waters. Bartel's films are never ones that were intended to appeal to a wide audience, but for those who do enjoy his offbeat satirical style, this is quite enjoyable.