The Beverly Hillbillies (1993)
Directed by Penelope Spheeris
Mild-mannered dirt-poor hill-dweller Jed Clampett strikes it rich when oil is discovered on his property. At cousin Pearl's insistence, he moves his family to Beverly Hills to better enjoy his newfound wealth.
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It seems an unlikely reference, but could Anderson be riffing on The Beverly Hillbillies with that name?
At the hands of a less inspired filmmaker, THE EYES OF MY MOTHER would have surely been reduced to yet another silly iteration of the Addams Family-meets-The Beverly Hillbillies fish-out-of-water trope.
One shot starts oil coming out of the ground and somewhere deep in my soul the theme from The Beverly Hillbillies started playing.
But some of the others appear to be auditioning for a reboot of “The Beverly Hillbillies.”
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To see The Fast And The Furious grow into a billion-dollar franchise is like watching some real-life version of King Ralph or The Beverly Hillbillies, where boorish upstarts burn four-wheeler rubber across marble floors.
Comic primness was never wiggier than McDormand’s as Marge, not Nancy Kulp’s as Miss Jane Hathaway on The Beverly Hillbillies , not even Dana Carvey’s as Church Lady on Saturday Night Live .