Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)

A semi-autobiographical coming of age comedy/drama written and directed by Tamara Jenkins. It's the story of a teenager, Vivian Abromowitz, struggling to cope with her own maturing body shape and her father's need to change apartments frequently. All she wants is some stability and to feel comfortable in her own skin.
A film like this lives or dies by how well its characters are scripted and by how much we come to either sympathise or empathise with them over the course of the running time. Happily, everyone performs at the upper end of the scale, but it's the ladies that tip it into the realms of being wonderful, specifically Natasha Lyonne and Marisa Tomei.

3½ 'building' things out of 5