DVD : Better Off Dead

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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9780792178965
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792178963
Label: Paramount
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Paramount
MPN: PARD871914D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 16, 2002
Running Time: 97 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1985

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
After his girlfriend dumps him for a skier a teen meets an exchange student from france. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/27/2004 Starring: John Cusack Demian Slade Run time: 97 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Savage Steve Holland

Amazon.com:
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, clich茅d 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

Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - One of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen!
I bought this movie because I remembered watching it when I was younger, and thought my son might like to see it. He, and I have watched it about 7 or 8 times since we received it. He loves it as much as I did when I was his age. John Cusack is so funny! It really is a great movie if you like over the top comedy.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Sorry your mom blew up Ricky
One of the best movies ever… just classic. I feel for anyone bashing this movie. Cusack is great, the french chick is hot and Ricky is hiliarious. Yeah, its shallow and goofy but in a damn good way.

Buy it.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Better off alive so I can watch tis movie
This is on my list of great funny movies.It’s really funny and has a great ending.Better Off Dead - I Love the 80’s Edition

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Better Off Dead
John Cusack has had a marvelous career and continues to improve his talent, more in dramatic roles like “1408″ these days. As a young man he played in a number of comedies and this is certainly a good one. When his girlfriend breaks up with him he thinks it’s the end of the world. The fact that just about everything in his room has her picture on it let’s us in on the fact he may be slightly over the edge. To say he was slightly obsessed with her is putting it mildly. Eventually he meets a foreign … Read More

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Flash Back to the 80’s!!!
WOW!!! What a classic Cusack film! He was SO young… SO cute… SO Cusack! This hilarious tale follows the hopeless romantic on his quest for a revengeful death… or lack thereof. With timeless characters, colorful cartoons and questionable food, your eyes won’t be bored with all the visual delights. Not to mention the outlandish comments and situations everyone finds themselves in. Definite knee slapper!!!