Better Off Dead - DVD
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- Genre: Comedy
- Description: After his girlfriend (Amanda Wyss) ditches him for a boorish ski jock, Lane (John Cusack) decides that suicide is the only answer. However, his increasingly inept attempts bring him only more agony and embarrassment. Filled with the wildest teen nightmares, a family you can't help but identify with and a host of wonderful comic characters, Savage Steve Holland's writing/directorial debut is a masterful look at those painfully funny teen years. (1985) Running time 97 minutes.
- Title: Better Off Dead
- Format: DVD
- MPAA Rating: PG (Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA) film-rating system is used in the United States and its territories to rate a film's suitability for certain audiences.)
- Studio: Paramount
- Release Date: 07/16/2002
- Genre: Comedy
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- Product Name: Better Off Dead - DVD
- UPC: 097368719149
After his girlfriend (Amanda Wyss) ditches him for a boorish ski jock, Lane (John Cusack) decides that suicide is the only answer. However, his increasingly inept attempts bring him only more agony and embarrassment. Filled with the wildest teen nightmares, a family you can't help but identify with and a host of wonderful comic characters, Savage Steve Holland's writing/directorial debut is a masterful look at those painfully funny teen years. (1985) Running time 97 minutes.
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BETTER OFF DEAD Getting dumped by his girlfriend leads Lane Meyer (John Cusack) to a series of hilarious-and totally inept-suicide attempts in this offbeat teen comedy from writer/director Savage Steve Holland. While not trying to do himself in, Lane deals with his mother's bad cooking, encounters two drag-racing brothers, hits it off with a pretty foreign exchange student, and tries to evade a paperboy who just wants his two dollars. RUNTIME 97 minutes Two-disc set. ULTRA HD
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