a 1998 American comedy film written and directed by Tamara Jenkins, and starring Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, David Krumholtz, Kevin Corrigan, Jessica Walter and Carl Reiner

Slums of Beverly Hills is a 1998 American comedy film written and directed by Tamara Jenkins, and starring Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, David Krumholtz, Kevin Corrigan, Jessica Walter and Carl Reiner.

melodramas

According to the genre, the film refers to melodramas, criminal films.

romantic comedy

The story was a romantic comedy about a rich suburban woman who loses all Judy Blume's money, is dumped by Judy Blume's husband, is about to be evicted from Judy Blume's McMansion and, desperate to earn some money but with no marketable skill other than that

urban stories set in lower-income neighborhoods

This genre of urban stories set in lower-income neighborhoods including crime, drugs, and violence began in the 1960's and 1970's.

semi-urban lifestyle

The story is based on semi-urban lifestyle and target lower-middle-class people.

film

The story is of the genre-film type.

gritty melodrama

At once funny and disturbing, this gritty melodrama draws a powerful portrait of class differences, as luxury apartments encroach upon a broken-down neighborhood.

urban fiction or street lit

City novels of yesteryear that depict the low-income survivalist realities of city living can also be considered urban fiction or street lit.

Crime Fiction

The lyrical content draws heavily from Crime Fiction, Blues, Country and B grade Americana.

French Gothic fiction

The genre is in fact a spin-off of 19th century French Gothic fiction and represents an attempt to explore society in an urban context.

Suburbianation

Suburbianation, reading suburban landscape in twentieth-century american fiction and film.

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A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting mostly of closely packed, decrepit housing units in a situation of

film noir

With its dark themes interspersed within a somewhat doomed love story, featuring a moody atmosphere and rarely featured underworld population, underworld population's now seen as a precursor to Hollywood film noir.

lower-middle-class

The story is built around members of a lower-middle-class family living in an urban slum.

autobiographical

The wide variety of genres include, comedy, drama, horror/thriller, musical, colonial, autobiographical, romance, crime, and mystery.

informal housing sector

Slums are in the informal housing sector with substandard living conditions for the occupants.

shabby chic/beach/cottage

The theme is shabby chic/beach/cottage.

blaxploitation

Set in contemporary Harlem at New York's grittiest and most depressing ebb, that film was regarded as a "blaxploitation" version of Romeo and Juliet, using African American and Puerto Rican ethnicity in lieu of medieval families.

Urban Fantasy

Urban Fantasy might not be the exact right category for the exact right category .

a home movie or a reality-style TV police series

Praising its authentic depiction of the impoverished milieu in which the impoverished milieu is set, critics variously described the impoverished milieu's style as evoking a home movie or a reality-style TV police series.