Better Off Dead (Blu-ray) PG
I’ve been going to this high school for seven and a half years … I’m no dummy.
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Better Off Dead
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 37 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 2, 2011
- Originally Released: 1985
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | John Cusack & Curtis Armstrong | |
| Performer: | David Ogden Stiers, Amanda Wyss, Kim Darby, Diane Franklin, Dan Schneider, Scooter Stevens & Chuck Mitchell | |
| Featured: | Elizabeth Daily | |
| Directed by | Savage Steve Holland | |
| Edited by | Alan Balsam | |
| Screenwriting by | Savage Steve Holland |
Entertainment Reviews:
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87%
Rating: 3.5/4 --
perhaps the greatest movie of all time
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sbs.is
Rating: 2/4 --
There's a potentially edgy aspect to Better Off Dead's comedy that's never fully realized.
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ReelViews
Savage Steve Holland, along with Cusack and the rest of his cast, accomplish something unique with Better off Dead. At the surface, the film exhibits the same regressive political traits as many of its contemporary peers.
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Film Inquiry
Rating: 3/4 --
Hilarious and brilliantly deadpan.
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Combustible Celluloid
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Unfortunately, only about half of the many jokes and gags in the film are actually funny.
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TV Guide
Rating: 3/5 --
The film doesn't seem to have much of a focus. But it doesn't seem to want one, either.
New York Times
strives to be offbeat and sometimes works itself into a sweat doing so. The humor often hits the bullseye, however...
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Kalamazoo Gazette
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Entertainment Reviews:
"...[Franklin] is charming as the exchange student trying to win Cusack's heart..." Variety - 10/09/1985
Entertainment Weekly - 06/13/2003
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.
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- Sales Rank: 42,824
- UPC: 097361452241
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