Life Insurance Scams
Scams, mistakes, high costs haunt funeral homes
Living in Connecticut may be expensive, but dying here isn’t cheap, either. And sometimes not even the dead are safe from scams, ripoffs and blunders.
Part 3, Texas Life Insurance Scams, Low Ball, Spring, Conroe, Woodlands, Kingwood
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Double Jeopardy $2.75 Young Libby Parsons (Ashley Judd) is happy as a clam, and why not? She’s got a loving, successful husband (Bruce Greenwood), an adorable son, and an island home to die for. One morning, after a romantic sailing expedition with her husband, Libby finds herself covered in blood. Her husband’s missing, the boat resembles a murder scene, and there’s a knife on the deck. One might stop right there and … |
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Fletch [Blu-ray] $6.32 Gregory McDonald’s lightweight mystery novel about an undercover newspaper reporter cracking a police drug ring is transformed by screenwriter Andrew Bergman (Blazing Saddles, and writer/director of The Freshman and Honeymoon in Vegas) into a fairly sarcastic and occasionally very funny Chevy Chase vehicle. Enjoyment of the film pivots on whether you find Chase’s flippant, smart-ass brand of verba… |
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The Fortune Cookie $6.98 Billy Wilder’s insurance-scam comedy, written with partner I.A.L. Diamond, is one of the legendary filmmaker’s surlier efforts. Were it not for the star-making performance of Walter Matthau (which won him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), it might not have registered so strongly with audiences. Shot in a grimy black and white, the story begins as CBS cameraman Harry Hinkle (Jack Lemmon)… |
