Better Off Dead PG

I’ve been going to this high school for seven and a half years … I’m no dummy.
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DVD Details

  • Rated: PG
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 37 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: July 16, 2002
  • Originally Released: 1985
  • Label: Paramount

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User Ratings: 55,423
Rating: 3.5/4 -- perhaps the greatest movie of all time Full Review
sbs.is
Jul 19, 2007
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
May 20, 2003
...[Franklin] is charming as the exchange student trying to win Cusack's heart...
Variety
Oct 9, 1985
[A] wonderfully off-kilter iteration of the typical coming-of-age-and-getting-the-girl movie....Genuinely funny... -- Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly
Jul 22, 2011
Rating: 4/5 -- I've rarely met anyone who didn't secretly love it passionately. Full Review
Film Threat
Dec 6, 2005
...A sharp satire that foreshadowed films like HEATHERS....It's a freak show that makes adolescence look as painful as you remember it...
Entertainment Weekly
Jun 13, 2003
Rating: 3/4 -- Full of...goofy ironies, and while it ain't Molière, it is a pretty great entry in the teen-comedy genre. [Blu-ray] Full Review
Groucho Reviews
Aug 2, 2011

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: 12,210
  • UPC: 097368719149
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