22 — FOCUS — Friday. August 29. 1980
  --Film CJips------
‘How To Beat the High Cost of Living’
 by Steve K. Waiz
   'How To Beat the High Cost of Living' from Film-ways. Screenplay by Robert Kaufman. Starring Susan St. James. Jessica Lange and Jane Curtin. Rated PG.
Review
  If Eugene, Oregon excites you. then ‘How To Beat the High Cost of Living' should be a source of enjoyment. The Northwestern U.S. location is used as a backdrop for this yarn about three frustrated women who all have one
 thing in common—love of money.
   These partners in crime are Jessica Lange, representing the upper middle class housewife who enjoys the finer things in life. Susan St. James, as the divorced mother who needs hard cash to snare a new husband and Jane Curtin, who headlines as the sexually frustrated suburbanite who'll support her frierds in any vent.nj. Together they	t
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  Robert Kaufman, who achieved so much success
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 by J.T. Yurko
    'The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu' from Orion Pictures. Directed by Piers Haggard, screenplay by Jim Maloney and Rudy Dochtermann. Starring Peter Sellers. Helen Mirren. Sid Caesar. Rated PG. ^
Review
  The recent death of Peter Sellers will undoubtedly focus considerjbie attention on this, his list movie. This is attention
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 with his Love at First Bite' ccmedy. has struck out in his attempt to satirize our inflationary problems Although the scheme that these three women hatch sounds comical at first, the climax is all too predictable.
  The only redeeming value in this film are the performances by Lange and Curtin. Lange, who has had limited roles in King
 Kcng' and ‘All That Jazz.' exjces a giddy sensuality which cold be utilized in a really meaty movie farce. Curtm. a graduate of TV's Saturday Night Live.’ is witty, funny and actually is more attractive on the big screen.
   With movie ducats going for $4-5 a shot, this summer release does not offer the best solution to beating the high cost of living.
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