Better Off Dead [Blu-ray]

Better Off Dead [Blu-ray] by Paramount

Lane Myer (John Cusack) is stuck in a personal hell. A compulsive, adolescent Everyman growing up in Suburbia, USA, no longer most effective does he fail to make the distinguished high school ski workforce (again), however his liked sweetheart, Beth, additionally go aways him for Roy, the crew's common, conceited captain. If this is now not dangerous sufficient, he's stuck with a mom who frighteningly experiments--rather than cook dinners--with food, a brother who builds rockets out of adaptations, and a highest pal so desperate for medicine that he settles for snorting powdered snow. Faced with these professionalspects, Lane chooses to end all of it ... unless he comes up with a ridiculous plan to gain acceptance and win Beth back. Director Savage Steve Holland warps this easy, clichéd premise, letting hellos wacky creativeness twist it into a reasonably unique, quite darkish, and completely hellolarious '80s teen comedy. Not as severe 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 excessive jinks with surrealistic fantasy touches, together with Jell-O that crawls, a hamburger that sings Van Halen, drawings that mock its creator, Japanese race-car drivers who simplest talk Howard Cosell, and a psychotic paperboy in the hunt for blood over a missing $2. Cusack places the whole thing on his shoulders and carries the madness with some other one in every of hellos 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 formative yrs and suffering.. Read more Better Off Dead [Blu-ray]

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After hellos lady friend (Amanda Wyss) ditches hellom for a boorish ski jock, Lane (John Cusack) decides that suicide is the handiest answer. However, hellos an growing number of inept trys convey hellom most effective extra agony and embarrassment. Filled with the wildest teen nightmares, a household you can not assist but identify with and a number of wonderful comedian personas, Savage Steve Holland's writing/directorial debut is a masterful take a look at those painfully humorous teen 12 monthss.

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