Tamara Jenkins write and direct this comedy-drama picture the experience of turn up hapless in the 90210 zip codification, state from the point of position of Vivian Abramowitz (Natasha Lyonne), a adolescent who populate a mobile being in the outskirts of Beverly hill with her individual, disassociate male parent, Gilbert Murray (Alan Arkin) and her two immature brother (Saint David Krumholtz, Eli Marienthal). As Gilbert Murray try to maintain the household in the Beverly hill school territory, the household travel into a one-bedroom flat in a shabby composite.