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List Price: $9.98Price: $3.06 You Save: $6.92 (69%)as of 03/20/2010 14:57 EDT
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
Fabric Type: 9786301802321
Graphics Memory Size: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Legal Disclaimer: 6301802322
Maximum Color Depth: 20th Century Fox
Metal Type: 20th Century Fox
Total Firewire Ports: 20th Century Fox
Total Parallel Ports: May 23, 2000
Total S Video Out Ports: 97 minutes
20th Century Fox
October 11, 1985
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Lane Myer (John Cusack) is stuck in a personal hell. A compulsive, adolescent Everyman growing up in Suburbia, USA, not only does he fail to make the prestigious high school ski team (again), but his beloved sweetheart, Beth, also leaves him for Roy, the team's popular, arrogant captain. If this isn't bad enough, he's stuck with a mother who frighteningly experiments--rather than cooks--with food, a brother who builds rockets out of models, and a best friend so desperate for drugs that he settles for snorting powdered snow. Faced with these prospects, Lane opts to end it all ... until he comes up with a ridiculous plan to gain acceptance and win Beth back. Director Savage Steve Holland warps this simple, clichéd premise, letting his wacky imagination twist it into a fairly original, slightly dark, and completely hilarious '80s teen comedy. Not as serious 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 high jinks with surrealistic fantasy touches, including Jell-O that crawls, a hamburger that sings Van Halen, drawings that mock its creator, Japanese race-car drivers who only speak Howard Cosell, and a psychotic paperboy seeking blood over a missing $2. Cusack puts the whole thing on his shoulders and carries the insanity with another one of his 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 adolescence and suffering. --Dave McCoy
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My husband loves this movie for it's quirkiness and memorable characters. It is a typical 80's movie (see: John Cusack). It's funny and I would recommend it to anyone who likes this genre of movies.
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If you haven't seen this, you're missing out on a classic 80's comedy. Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer are two of the best comedies of all time. John Cusack is on his 'A Game' in this movie. Pick yourself up a copy right now!
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I watch my old teenage favorites with my kids. They are often in love with my old favorites right away. This one is one of their favorites along with "The Breakfast Club", "Sixteen Candles", "Some Kind Of Wonderful", and "The Lost Boys"
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savage steve holland garnered the teenage viewers like john hughes never could. i love my hughes' films but you cannot beat a claymation of a burger/frankenstein dancing to van halen. oh, oh and the classic line, "gimme my two dollars!!!" my old supervisor and i bonded over that one. and don't forget mom's themed dinners, the green stuff....that moved ewwwww.
i have my teenage daughter hooked on 80s' films. i tore her away from twilight watching john cusack films. she doesn't ... Read More
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John Cusack just represents the typical teenage High Schooler in this movie. When getting dumped it seems like it is the end of the world. Then he meets someone new and the troubles from the first fade away and dont matter any longer. Also- he has a nice classic car!
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