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- 1980
- PG
- Filmways Pictures
- 1 h 45 m
- 1980
- PG
- Filmways Pictures
- 1 h 45 m
Summary 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.
Directed By: Robert Scheerer
Written By: Robert Kaufman, Leonora Thuna
- 1980
- PG
- Filmways Pictures
- 1 h 45 m
- 1980
- PG
- Filmways Pictures
- 1 h 45 m
How to Beat the High Cost of Living
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Summary 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.
Directed By: Robert Scheerer
Written By: Robert Kaufman, Leonora Thuna
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Generally Unfavorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
30
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
50% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
50% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
The film is so-so, but producer/writer Bob Kaufman, flush with the success of Love at First Bite said High Cost was the forerunner of a new way of life. [04 Aug 1991, p.34]
A silly trifle about three housewives (Susan Saint James, Jessica Lange and Jane Curtin) who'd rather plan a shopping mall robbery to ease their dire financial straits than try to get a job. [04 May 1986, p.6]
How to Beat the High Cost of Living is a feeble house-fly of a comedy that unsuccessfully attempts to make fun of one of the more dismaying problems of our time: inflation.
This poorly plotted film concerns three middle-class suburbanites who turn to crime when faced with poverty.
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