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The Check is in the Mail… (1986) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1986 · 83 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Joan Darling
- Starring
- Brian Dennehy, Dick Shawn, Howard Storm, Nita Talbot, Yuji Okumoto, Walter Mathews
Fed up with the endless cycle of plastic money and phony credit, Richard Jackson decides enough is enough. He drags his bewildered family into a wildly comic crusade against credit‑card mania, yuppie status symbols and the whole consumer‑driven ‘system’, exposing suburban excess with humor and grit.
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