How to Beat the High Co$t of Living is a 1980 comedy film, starring Jane Curtin, Susan Saint James and Jessica Lange. Also in the cast are Dabney Coleman, Fred Willard, Richard Benjamin, Eddie Albert, Cathryn Damon, and a cameo by Jane Curtin's fellow Saturday Night Live co-star Garrett Morris. The movie was released in summer of 1980, grossing approximately US $7.5 million. Jane , Elaine , and Louise are three suburbanites in Eugene, Oregon. These three women have been friends since high school, and are currently all struggling with money. Jane is divorced, trying to cope with the man she... is dating, Robert , her newly-single father who has just moved in with her after his wife leaves him for another woman, and her two young children, one boy and his younger sister who need dental work. At the same time as Robert needs thousands to buy his half of a business, Jane learns she is pregnant, which leaves neither of them very happy since both are nearly broke. Elaine's husband, an architect, has recently left her for a younger woman.
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| Release date: | 1980 |
| Directed by: | Robert Scheerer |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 105 Minutes |
| Genre: | Comedy, Action |