How
To Beat The High Cost Of Living
Released
December 1979
Starring
Jane Curtin, Jessica Lange (as Louise), Susan Saint James,
Richard Benjamin, Dabney Coleman, Cathryn Damon, Fred
Willard, Eddie Albert
Directed by Robert Scheerer
110 min.
Box
office gross - 7.5 million
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complete credits at Internet
Movie Database
This
low key comedy quickly vanished from the screens after
poor reviews. It concerns three housewives who, desperate
for cash, plot to rob a local mall that is sponsoring
a cash giveaway contest. Viewed today, the film is mildly
amusing, and has some loyal fans. Susan Saint James and
Jane Curtin went on to star in the hit television series
Kate and Allie. Lange, who plays Richard Benjamin's
wife, looks ravishing and shows some of the comic talent
that she would expose to greater audiences in Tootsie,
a few years later.
Critical
Sampling:
"A
feeble housefly of a comedy" - Vincent Canby,
The New York Times
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