The Check is in the Mail…

Year: 1986

Runtime: 83 mins

Language: English

Director: Joan Darling

Comedy

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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