How to Beat the High Cost of Living (1980)

Divorce by Answering Machine

Elaine (Jane Curtin) returns home to find a message from her husband telling her that he won’t be coming home tonight, or ever.

Directed by Robert Scheerer.

© MGM 2012

Released in 1980 by MGM.

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  • primary-occasion: Other
  • secondary-occasion: Divorce
  • prop: Clothing
  • prop: Telephone
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  • prop: Shopping Bag
  • setting: Bedroom
  • setting: Bank
  • theme: Betrayal
  • theme: Heartbreak
  • theme: Rejection
  • actor: Cathryn Damon
  • actor: Jane Curtin
  • actor: Susan Tolsky
  • director: Robert Scheerer
  • producer: Jerome M. Zeitman
  • producer: Robin Krause
  • producer: Samuel Z. Arkoff
  • producer: Robert Kaufman
  • cinematographer: James Crabe
  • composer: Patrick Williams
  • editor: Bill Butler
  • production-designer: Lawrence G. Paull
  • role-name: Natalle
  • role-name: Patty
  • role-name: Elaine
  • screenwriter: Robert Kaufman
  • screenwriter: Leonora Thuna
  • year: 1980
  • studio: MGM

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