Disturbing and refreshing all at once. It’s about a family (father and 3 kids) who jump from apartment to apartment in the outskirts of Beverly Hills (so the kids can go to good schools). The father is all washed-up, and only has the kids to keep him going. The main character (the daughter) is trying to figure out how to be a woman in the company of 3 men. Her only female role-model is her happy-go-lucky, hippy cousin who comes to live with them for a little while. Despite all their problems, this family somehow scrapes by and maintains a bizarre sort of dignity in the process. I was especially impressed by the “made up language”… that the two women used. I couldn’t figure it out at all. This movie is based on someone’s actual life. Some people manage to grow up no matter how screwed up their lives are.