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Home Economics: A Documentary of Suburbia

Premiere Date: July 18, 1995

Synopsis

When Jenny Cool interviewed women in a suburban housing development outside Los Angeles, she discovered a fragile lifestyle dominated by societal pressures and the daily commuter grind. This is a crash course on one version of the American Dream and, ironically, its costs to the family structure.

TAGS: home economics, housing, suburbs, women

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Jenny Cool

Jenny Cool

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