Cinema: Low Budget

HOW TO BEAT THE

HIGH COST OF LIVING

Directed by Robert Scheerer

Screenplay by Robert Kaufman

It may not be the best line in the picture, but it is certainly the bottom line. Jessica Lange delivers it. She plays one of three housewives so oppressed by the effect of inflation on their lives and expectations that they resort to grand larceny to solve their problems. As usual, Jessica is fighting with her husband (Richard Benjamin) about money. Why, he wonders, is she putting so much pressure on him? Simple, she responds: she is just like...

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