Synopsis
Jed Clampett and kin move from Arkansas to Beverly Hills when he becomes a billionaire, after an oil strike. The country folk are very naive with regard to life in the big city, so when Jed starts a search for a new wife there are inevitably plenty of takers and con artists ready to make a fast buck
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Cast
- Jim VarneyJed Clampett
- Diedrich BaderJethro Bodine
- Erika EleniakElly May Clampett
- Cloris LeachmanGranny
- Lily TomlinMiss Jane Hathaway
- Lea ThompsonLaura Jackson
- Dolly PartonDolly Parton
- Rob SchneiderWoodrow Tyler
- Dabney ColemanMilburn Drysdale
- Linda CarlsonAunt Pearl
Recommendations
- 67
Austin Chronicle
There's just enough plot to keep things moving but never too much that it gets in the way of the basic fish-out-of-water gagfest. The Beverly Hillbillies' greatest achievement is its inspired casting. - 60
Variety
It’s thin stuff, but the ingratiating naivete of the characters and the aw-shucks friendliness of the cast are disarming, and it becomes easy to just let this go down as a country tune with some moonshine on the side. - 60
The New York Times
It is by no means the dopiest thing on the big screen. - 60
Los Angeles Times
You can feel your IQ plummeting while watching The Beverly Hillbillies but since you lose 10,000 brain cells a day anyway, why not have a few laughs? - 50
TV Guide Magazine
If it works at all, THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES functions as a curio for a tube-fed generation nostalgic for the good old days when TV was still a safe place to hide. - 30
Rolling Stone
The Beverly Hillbillies is not, as the saying goes, a critic’s picture. Still, you want to root for a movie that wallows without shame in leering, fatuous humor. I did — for about 15 minutes — then the sameness set in like an overdose of Beavis and Butt-Head. - 25
Entertainment Weekly
The plot, which features Lea Thompson as a gold digger scheming to marry Jed, is like something you’d catch on the USA Network at 4 a.m. But enough of beating a dead possum. After sitting through The Beverly Hillbillies, I now realize that the best tribute anyone can make to the pop detritus of our childhood is to let it rest in peace. - 20
Time Out
[A] lamentable half-hour sit-com masquerading as a movie...No unexpected twists; very few jokes; not much talent. After the glory that was "Wayne's World", director Spheeris should be ashamed of herself.
