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DVD : Better Off Dead - I Love the 80's EditionIn association with Amazon.com List Price: $14.98 Amazon.com's Price: $13.49 You Save: $1.49 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Paramount EAN: 0097361378343 Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Paramount Manufacturer: Paramount Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Paramount Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 05, 2008 Running Time: 97 minutes Studio: Paramount Theatrical Release Date: 1985 Sales Rank: 12356 MPN: PARD137834D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/05/2008 Run time: 97 minutes Rating: Pg 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:  - 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: - 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!!! Browse for similar items by category:
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