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Better Off Dead

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Better Off Dead
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PG,1hr 37min
Genre:
Comedy
Released:
January 1, 1985
Director:
Savage Steve Holland
Distributor:
CBS Entertainment Production
Starring:
John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Kim Darby  ...more
Synopsis: Most animation aficionados of the 1990s know "Savage Steve Holland" as the cocreator (with Bill Kopp) of the all-stops-out TV cartoon series Eek! The Cat. But Holland had been exercising his own peculiar brand of deviltry on live characters long before Eek! came into being. In Holland's Better Off Dead, John Cusack plays a lovestruck teenager, hopelessly enamored with Amanda Wyss. When she dumps him in favor of a more popular high-schooler, the boy's entire day quickly goes to Hell. In the words ... Full Synopsis
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Derek Armstrong, AMG Review
Cartoonist Savage Steve Holland made his directorial debut with this acid comedy about a going-nowhere hamburger flipper and his run of bad luck. Its gleefully twisted tone, exemplified by a goofy suicide attempt in a basically lighthearted film (John Cusack's character jumps off a bridge, only to land among the refuse of a passing garbage truck), made it a minor quotable classic to a generation of ... Full Review
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John Cusack
Lane Myer
David Ogden Stiers
Al Myer
Kim Darby
Jenny Myer
Demian Slade
Johnny Gasparini
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