How to Beat the High Cost of Living (1980)
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- AKA How to Beat the High Co$t of Living
- Director Robert Scheerer
- Rated PG
- US DVD Release February 18th, 2003
- Country USA
A group of Oregon friends plan a heist to beat their Carter-era economic blues in Robert Scheerer’s giddy comedy How to Beat the High Cost of Living (1980). With inflation and unemployment rife in their Pacific Northwest hometown, friends Jane (Susan Saint James), Elaine (Jane Curtin), and Louise (Jessica Lange) are forced to scrounge for loose change to survive. Unable to afford babysitters Become a Mr Skin Member and get the full review



