Comedy

Romance

Better Off Dead...

A&M Films

CBS Theatrical Films

United States of America

English

John Cusack

Amanda Wyss

Diane Franklin

Aaron Dozier

Curtis Armstrong

David Ogden Stiers

Kim Darby

Demian Slade

Laura Waterbury

Dan Schneider

Yuji Okumoto

Brian Imada

Scooter Stevens

Chuck Mitchell

Frank Burt Avalon

Vincent Schiavelli

Taylor Negron

E. G. Daily

Joe W. Davis

Peter Ellenstein

Edward Mehler

Thomas Rollerson

Toby Iland

Jonathan Charles Fox

Darren Harris

Randy Stoklos

Sam High

David Vaughn

Tina Littlewood

Steven Williams

Stuart K. Robinson

Rima Lyn

Yano Anaya

Joey Tushnet

Sebastian Dungan

Rick Rosenthal

Savage Steve Holland

Bill McIntosh

Tom Morga

Bill Hart

Jean Coulter

Wally Rose

Keith Harvey

Johnny Hock

A. Michael Lerner

Greg Wayne Elam

George Fisher

Wayne King

Harvey Parry

Frank Beddor

Sandy Berumen

Kent Hays

Hank Calia

Peter Stader

Roy L. Downey

Jeff Jensen

Cha Cha Sandoval-McMahon

Rick Seaman

Sharon Schaffer

Jim Dunn

Debbie Lynn Ross

Dick Warlock

Neil Summers

Mark Yerkes

Bruce Paul Barbour

Chere Rae

William Strom

Gary Moreno

Caro Jones

Rupert Hine

Alan Balsam

Andrew Meyer

Herman F. Zimmerman

Georgina Williams

Michael Jaffe

Isidore Mankofsky

Gil Friesen

James R. Scribner

Brad R. Loman

Jim Dunford

Richard Tyler

David Jernigan

Frank M. Holgate

Dick Vandenberg

David Roester

Jan Gould

John L. Mack

Huw Davies

Tom Kessenich

Bud Peifer Jr.

William Hooper

Don MacDougall

Nancy Forner

Maria Lease

Faith Minton

Yudi Bennett

Jann Dutmer

Jack Clements

Bud Alper

Fred Lerner

Rick Neff

Gene Ashbrook

Frederick Hamm

Ted Roberts

Malcolm Brown

Art Lipschultz

David Anderle

Shelley Kirkwood

Jake Jarrell

Drew Struzan

Filipe Manuel Neto

**A stupid teen comedy, but still funny enough.**

Teenage films are not exactly my “cup of tea”, but I confess that this little comic film pleased me: after being abandoned by his girlfriend who, deep down, didn't like him and was just trying to be the girlfriend of the most popular boy in the neighborhood, a young man decides to die. After some half-hearted and half-hearted attempts, he ends up turning the situation around in a surprising way.

It's a film that has the advantage of being funny, although it's still as stupid as any other teen film. They treat that snowy hill as if it were a Himalayan peak – they even gave it a name alluding to a real mountain in this range – and good skiing seems to be an obsession for the locals. It's the most absurd thing in the film, at least for me. We also have a bizarre and disgusting family that lives close to the protagonist and that I wouldn't want near my house: besides looking like a beautiful group of idiots, I don't know if those people take baths. There are still some additional oddities, but I won't say much about them... it's better to see.

John Cusack did a good job. Still a teenager, the actor was already showing signs of having talent and knew how to take advantage of opportunities to grow in the artistic world, and here he makes a committed and competent effort. The rest of the cast is much weaker, largely due to characters who are essentially clichés with legs. Diane Franklin escapes thanks to a better character, and competent work from the actress.

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David Ogden Stiers

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