Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
| Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills | |
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| Directed by | Paul Bartel |
| Screenplay by | Bruce Wagner |
| Story by | Bruce Wagner Paul Bartel |
| Produced by | James C. Katz |
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| Cinematography | Steven Fierberg |
| Edited by | Alan Toomayan |
| Music by | Stanley Myers |
Production company | North Street Pictures |
| Distributed by | Cinecom Pictures |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3.5 million |
| Box office | $2.1 million |
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills is a 1989 American black comedy film co-written and directed by Paul Bartel. The film re-unites Bartel with his Eating Raoul co-stars Mary Woronov and Robert Beltran. It also stars Jacqueline Bisset, Ray Sharkey, Ed Begley Jr., Wallace Shawn, Paul Mazursky, and Rebecca Schaeffer. Schaeffer's appearance in the film served as the catalyst for her murder one month after its release.
The film deals with a widowed television actress, her circle of friends, and her employees. Her planned comeback is sabotaged, when the people around her start bragging to a reporter about their sexual indiscretions. The actress soon starts a romantic relationship with a playwright, while rejecting jealous protests by her husband's ghost.