Better Off Dead [VHS]

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starring: John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Kim Darby, Demian Slade, Scooter Stevens
directed by: Savage Steve Holland

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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0097363853534
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, Original recording reissued, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Languages: EnglishUnknown
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: December 12, 2000
Running Time: 97 minutes
Studio: Paramount

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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, 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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