It was an adaptation of Allan Gurganus's novella Blessed Assurance: A Moral Tale from the book White People.
She befriends Jerry Hill (Grant Show), a young white man who has returned from the Korean War.
He works for a ruthless businessman (George Wendt) who persuades him to exploit poor blacks by selling them funeral insurance.
The New York Times said the film was "marred by a screenplay that makes its upper-class white characters... simply stupid rather than complicatedly so.
Yet despite its good intentions, "The Price of Heaven" fizzles into just another tale of a handsome, promising young man who's trying to choose between his sweet longtime girlfriend (Lori Loughlin) and a rich, obnoxious bombshell (Cari Shayne)--as though, in the middle of production, everyone began acting from a discarded "Melrose Place" script.