| Better Off Dead |  | Actors: John Cusack, Demian Slade
Studio: Paramount
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Rating:  237 reviews
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 97 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PARD871914D
ISBN: 0792178963
UPC: 097368719149
EAN: 9780792178965
ASIN: B00005JKFA
Theatrical Release Date: 1985
Release Date: July 16, 2002
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Product Description
Lane Myer's (John Cusack) dreams are shattered when his girlfriend Beth (Amanda Wyss) decides she prefers the company of a sleazy ski jock over his own. This disheartening news leads Lane to attempt to take his own life in various ways--all of which never seem to work out. But if he can beat Beth's new boyfriend in a ski run down the treacherous K-12, he may be able to win her back. Along the way, Lane also encounters a beautiful French exchange student, a nasal spray-snorting neighbor, a rabid newspaper boy, and dancing hamburgers. "Savage" Steve Holland (ONE CRAZY SUMMER) directs this 1985 cult favorite.
Lane Myer (John Cusack) is stuck in a personal hell. A compulsive, adolescent Everyman growing up in Suburbia, USA, not only does he fail to make the prestigious high school ski team (again), but his beloved sweetheart, Beth, also leaves him for Roy, the team's popular, arrogant captain. If this isn't bad enough, he's stuck with a mother who frighteningly experiments--rather than cooks--with food, a brother who builds rockets out of models, and a best friend so desperate for drugs that he settles for snorting powdered snow. Faced with these prospects, Lane opts to end it all ... until he comes up with a ridiculous plan to gain acceptance and win Beth back. Director Savage Steve Holland warps this simple, clichéd premise, letting his wacky imagination twist it into a fairly original, slightly dark, and completely hilarious '80s teen comedy. Not as serious a "suicide-attempt" movie as, say, Harold and Maude but just as funny, the film's more a collection of screwball sketches than a narrative. Holland livens the high jinks with surrealistic fantasy touches, including Jell-O that crawls, a hamburger that sings Van Halen, drawings that mock its creator, Japanese race-car drivers who only speak Howard Cosell, and a psychotic paperboy seeking blood over a missing $2. Cusack puts the whole thing on his shoulders and carries the insanity with another one of his touching, obsessively romantic performances, which, along with Say Anything, The Sure Thing, and One Crazy Summer, made him the quintessential (and appealing) personification of lovestruck adolescence and suffering. --Dave McCoy
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 Better than Dead September 3, 2010
My pen name
This is a great movie. It sums up all those horrible break ups we had in our early years. Definitely give it a shot.
I want my two dollars!! August 27, 2010
Mark E. Hendricks (Lexington Park, MD)
Arguably the best John Cusack movie of all time. I initially resisted watching it thinking it was a silly movie. Boy was I wrong! It is another of those funny movies with great lines and characters.
I loved it so much I bought the sound track because the songs are fantastic.
80s magic August 1, 2010
Martin J Kramer
This is definitely an 80s wacky comedy. If you don't like wild comedies, you probably won't like this too much. It's also directed by Savage Steve Holland who also did One Crazy Summer with John Cusack. I think One Crazy Summer is the better of the two. Both have those same style animation sequences which are entertaining and nostalgic. There are so many lines in this movie that have stuck with me my whole life. "I want my two dollars!" Possibly the ultimate 80s movie.
My mistake - good customer service July 17, 2010
Coral Tily
I had forgotten to update my address in my account on Amazon before I made this purchase. I appreciate the seller's full and timely refund upon his/her receipt of my returned video.
One of the best 80's movies of all time.... April 29, 2010
DiscountDiva
This movie is a great 80's movie to share with your teens! It's up there with Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
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