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Jul 11, 1980 · How to Beat the High Cost of Living: Directed by Robert Scheerer. With Susan Saint James, Jane Curtin, Jessica Lange, Richard Benjamin. A caper comedy about three suburban housewives who, in order to beat inflation and subsidize their alimony checks, plot to steal $1 million from a large plastic ball which is displayed in a local shopping center.
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- Comedy, Crime
- Robert Scheerer
- 1980-07-11
A caper comedy about three suburban housewives who, in order to beat inflation and subsidize their alimony checks, plot to steal $1 million from a large plastic ball which is displayed in a local shopping center. Oregon, 1980: Jane, Elaine and Louise are all feeling the effects of inflation and cannot afford, as the title states, the high cost ...
How to Beat the High Cost of Living is a 1980 American comedy heist film directed by Robert Scheerer and starring Susan Saint James, Jane Curtin, and Jessica Lange. Set in the aftermath of the economic recession of the 1970s, the film follows three women in suburban Oregon who, each facing personal and financial crises and desperate for money, devise a plan to steal a large amount of cash from ...
How to Beat the High Cost of Living is a 1980 comedy film, starring Jane Curtin, Susan Saint James, and Jessica Lange. Also in the cast are Dabney Coleman, Fred Willard, Richard Benjamin, Eddie Albert, Cathryn Damon, and a cameo by Jane Curtin's fellow Saturday Night Live co-star Garrett Morris.
How to Beat the High Cost of Living is a fair-to-middling heist comedy filmed in Valley River Center, the mall where I spent my teen years. Four decades later, Valley River's reverse-funnel rotunda top, featured in the film's overhead exterior shots, still rests on the mall's south end like a modernist UFO.
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- Robert Scheerer
How to Beat the High Cost of Living plot "A hilarious new comedy for everyone who ever wanted to give the oil companies gas pains, turn off the power companies lights and make the banks stand in line for a change." Oregon, 1980. Jane, Elaine and Louise feel the effects of inflation and cannot afford some things.
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Director. Robert Kaufman. Screenplay. Leonora Thuna. Story. In order to beat inflation and subsidize their alimony checks, three suburban housewives plot to steal $1 million from a large plastic ball which is displayed in a local shopping center.
