Troop Beverly Hills

About Troop Beverly Hills

Troop Beverly Hills is a 1989 motion picture filmed in the United States by Columbia Pictures. It was directed by Jeff Kanew and starred Shelley Long, Craig T. Nelson, Betty Thomas, Mary Gross, Shelley Morrison, a host of young stars including Tori Spelling, Carla Gugino, Jenny Lewis, Ami Foster, and Kellie Martin, and numerous celebrities in cameo appearances as themselves.

It was released on March 24, 1989, and grossed around USD $8.5 million over a six-week release. It received poor reviews, and was a financial disappointment. Nevertheless, the movie has gained a cult following through occasional airings on cable television.

Phyllis Nefler (Long), a Beverly Hills wife going through a divorce with her lawyer-cum-entrepreneur husband Fred (Nelson), decides to deal with it by becoming the leader of the unruly local troop of the Wilderness Girls (an allusion to the real Girl Scouts of the USA), of which her daughter, Hannah (Jenny Lewis), is a member. Her Beverly Hills sensibilities result in a change in the program for the girls in her troop, who are all the children of socialites, to get them more interested in the program.