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List Price: $9.98Price: $2.27 You Save: $7.71 (77%)as of 09/02/2010 12:44 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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Arguably the best John Cusack movie of all time. I initially resisted watching it thinking it was a silly movie. Boy was I wrong! It is another of those funny movies with great lines and characters.
I loved it so much I bought the sound track because the songs are fantastic.
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This is definitely an 80s wacky comedy. If you don't like wild comedies, you probably won't like this too much. It's also directed by Savage Steve Holland who also did One Crazy Summer with John Cusack. I think One Crazy Summer is the better of the two. Both have those same style animation sequences which are entertaining and nostalgic. There are so many lines in this movie that have stuck with me my whole life. "I want my two dollars!" Possibly the ultimate 80s movie.
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I had forgotten to update my address in my account on Amazon before I made this purchase. I appreciate the seller's full and timely refund upon his/her receipt of my returned video.
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This movie is a great 80's movie to share with your teens! It's up there with Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
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"Somebody threw out a perfectly good white boy". John Cusack got in a legal battle over this movie after it became a cult favorite. The film was originally released on VHS - but the DVD version had to go through litigation. I own both now - I just don't own a VHS player. This is one of three movies I own because I rarely rewatch them. Share it with your heartbroken teenager.
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