Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills

1989
R
1h 43m

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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)

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.The widow's houseboy and the divorcee's chauffeur bet on which will bed the other's employer first.

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5.9/10

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Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total

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Trivia
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.

Quotes
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.

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

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

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

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Sick and raunchy - not worth it

This movie is so sick and raunchy, just thinking about it makes me think, vulgar. The movie is extremely crude, and rides on the Beverly Hills image to sell the movie. A friend said it is a poor man's Eating Raoul. It is a movie I would like to forget. It has some marketing value for sure since Rebecca Scheaffr was in it. That tragedy has brought a little bit of fame to this movie. Other than using those marketing ploys, I don't recommend this movie to anyone. It is full of stereotypes and you feel like you've just been in a gutter. The party scene toward the beginning is perhaps the most memorable part of the movie. While there are Asian street gangs around, you don't get any kind of sociological value from this movie. No one really acts like they do in the movie, but it has no camp value. The title is the most interesting part of the movie.