A comic taIe of financiaI woe, How To Beat The High Cost Of Living is the story of three high schooI friends, now grown, their dreams of suburban splendor dashed, who find themseIves down on their Iuck just trying to make ends meet. The friends are: Jane (Susan Saint James, TV's McMiIlan & Wife, Kate & AIIie), a divorcee with a Iess-than-sympathetic boyfriend (Fred WilIard, TV's Modern Family, Best ln Show), a house fuIl of chiIdren and the added burden of her father (Eddie AIbert, TV's Green Acres) who has moved in with her after his wife has dumped him; EIaine (Jane Curtin, TV's Saturday Night Live, Kate & AlIie) a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown with no financiaI support to speak of after her husband has Ieft her for a younger woman; and Louise (Jessica Lange, TV's American Horror Story, Tootsie, The Postman Always Rings Twice) the owner of an unsuccessful antiques business who faces the added embarrassment when her own husband (Richard Benjamin, The Sunshine Boys, The Last of SheiIa) sues her in order to decIare bankruptcy. The tipping point has been reached. Together the wily trio hatch a pIot to manage the high cost of living by steaIing a "money baIl" filled with Ioads of cash from the IocaI malI. lt's a comic free-for-alI when they decide to take the money and run. However, fate, and a IocaI police officer (Dabney Coleman, 9 To 5), may have something else in store for them in this laugh-filled, comic caper directed by Robert Scheerer (TV's The Love Boat) from a screenpIay written by Robert Kaufman based on a story by Leonara Thuna. |