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638: 283:, high school student Lane Meyer's two main interests are skiing and his girlfriend of six months, Beth. Shortly before Christmas, Beth dumps Lane for the handsome and popular captain of the ski team, Roy Stalin. Roy is an arrogant bully who unfairly rejects Lane at ski team tryouts. Beth also criticizes Lane's car, an old station wagon. Although Lane also owns a 1967 818: 813: 808: 325:
ultimately wins despite losing a ski and being pursued by Johnny. Beth rushes to embrace Lane at the finish line, but he rejects her and after besting Ricky (who attempts to keep Lane from rescuing Monique from the restraints of his mother) in a ski-pole swordfight, drives off with Monique in his Camaro. Lane and Monique are last seen kissing on home plate at
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lawyer father, Al, who daily tries to stop the menacing paperboy, Johnny, from breaking his garage door windows with thrown newspapers. Furthermore, Johnny claims that the Meyers owe him two dollars for newspapers, and persistently hounds Lane, yelling "I want my two dollars!" Lane also regularly encounters two Japanese
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Lane cannot get past Beth's rejection and decides that death is the only way out of his misery. He makes several half-hearted attempts at suicide, which all comically fail. With the help of his best friend, Charles de Mar (who in lieu of not being able to get "real drugs" in their "bodaciously small
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on lead vocals and guitars, respectively. Hine had previously worked with Curnin and West-Oram, and also contributed vocals to the song. The following track, "Arrested by You", as well as "Better Off Dub (Title Music)" and "Race the K-12 (Instrumental)", were performed solely by Hine. "Arrested by
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Lane lives in a suburban development with his mother, Jenny, a ditzy housewife who routinely concocts creepy (and creeping) family meals; his genius little brother, Badger, who never speaks but at the age of "almost 8" can build powerful lasers and attract trashy women from "How-to" books; and his
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fan, turns out to be an excellent auto mechanic and skier who helps Lane fix his Camaro and tries to build his confidence. When Roy insults Monique, Lane challenges him to a ski race down the K-12, with the winner to be captain of the ski team. Monique helps Lane prepare for the race, which he
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As Lane attempts to either end his life or win back his ex-girlfriend, he gradually gets to know a new girl: a French foreign-exchange student named Monique, who has a crush on him. She is staying with Lane's overbearing neighbor Mrs. Smith, who continually tries to force Monique into being a
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from a whipped cream can), Lane tries to ski the K-12, the highest peak in town, in hopes of getting Beth back, but wipes out. Lane is further embarrassed when he gets fired from his humiliating fast food job at Pig Burgers in front of Roy and Beth, who are there on a date. To top it all, he
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on the RetroZest Podcast, actor Yano Anaya, who played one of Johnny Gasparini's paperboy gang members, also looped all of Demian Slade's dialogue as Johnny the paperboy. Anaya also played bully Grover Dill in
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The "Greendale" in the film is fictional. There is an unincorporated community in Yolo County in Northern California called "Greendale"; the real-life Greendale is not the setting for the film.
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has the body of a tired teen comedy but the soul of an inspired student film; it's the first movie in a long time to interrupt itself periodically with flights of animated fancy."
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girlfriend for her socially awkward son Ricky. The pair are so annoying that she pretends she cannot speak English. Monique, a
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Initially met with mixed to negative reviews on release, it has since developed a cult following for its unconventionally
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while bypassing entirely in their respective Chicago newspapers. They gave the film "two thumbs down". Bill Cosford of
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The only two tracks on the CD without Hine's involvement are "A Little Luck" and "One Way Love (Better Off Dead)".
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According to Holland, Cusack did not like the film and walked out of a screening during the filming of Holland's
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on lead vocals. Hine produced the song and was reportedly under consideration to produce an album for Berlin.
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The opening track, "With One Look (The Wildest Dream)", was produced by Hine and features
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A number of songs that appear in the film do not appear on the CD soundtrack, including
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and surreal comedy anchored by John Cusack's winsome, charming performance." On
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Matthew Harte – lead vocals (track 6), backing vocals (track 6)
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Martin Ansell – lead vocals (track 3), guitars (track 3)
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The hand-drawn animation in the movie was animated by
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of 6.90/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "
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Index

Better Off Dead

Drew Struzan
Savage Steve Holland
Michael Jaffe
John Cusack
David Ogden Stiers
Diane Franklin
Kim Darby
Isidore Mankofsky
Rupert Hine
A&M Films
CBS Theatrical Films
Warner Bros.
teen
black comedy
Savage Steve Holland
John Cusack
David Ogden Stiers
Diane Franklin
Kim Darby
surreal and absurdist humor
Northern California
Camaro
drag racers
Howard Cosell
Jell-O
nitrous oxide
hallucinations
Los Angeles Dodgers

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