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VHS : Better Off DeadIn association with Amazon.comstarring: John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Kim Darby, Demian Slade, Scooter Stevens directed by: Savage Steve Holland  List Price: $9.98 Price: $3.19 You Save: $6.79 (68%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786301802321 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6301802322 Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Publisher: 20th Century Fox Release Date: May 23, 2000 Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: October 11, 1985 Sales Rank: 5468 Related Items:
Editorial Review: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Sorry your mom blew up RickyOne of the best movies ever... just classic. "He's skiing on 1 SKI! umm.. And something is following them." Buy it. Rating: - Better off alive so I can watch tis movieThis 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:  - Better Off DeadJohn 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: - 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!!! ;) "Two dollars!" - CLASSIC!!! Rating: - Hilarious and charming 80s feastTake a lovelorn teen, a crazy fast food boss, kind but goofy parents, a kid brother with a science interest, a snotty skiing champ, a rotten newsboy out for his money, lots and lots and lots of cheesy, 80s synth music, a French exchange student, leg warmers, big hair, Pat Benatar lookalikes.... put them all together and you get Better Off Dead. This is one of the better 1980s comedies featuring teens in various conflicts. Virtually no violence or swearing here, and you'd have to laugh just at the ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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