Better Off Dead (film)

Better Off Dead is a 1985 American teen romantic comedy film starring John Cusack and written and directed by Savage Steve Holland. It tells the story of high school student Lane Myer who is suicidal after his girlfriend breaks up with him shortly before Christmas.

Lane cannot get past Beths rejection and decides that death is the only way out of his misery. He makes several halfhearted attempts at suicide, which all comically fail. With the help of his best friend, Charles de Mar Curtis Armstrong, who in lieu of real drugs constantly inhales everyday substances like JellO, snow, and nitrous oxide in a whipped cream can known as a whippit, Lane tries to ski the K12 himself 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.Lane lives in a suburban development with his mother, Jenny Kim Darby, a ditzy housewife who improvises gutwrenching recipes for family meals his genius little brother, Badger Scooter Stevens, who never speaks but at the age of almostcan build powerful lasers and attract trashy women and his lawyer father, Al David Ogden Stiers, who daily tries to stop the menacing paperboy, Johnny, from damaging his garage with thrown newspapers. Johnny claims that the Myers owe him two dollars for newspapers, and persistently hounds Lane uttering the catchphrase, I want my two dollars Lane also regularly encounters two Japanese drag racers, one of whom Yuji Okumoto learned to speak English by listening to Howard Cosell. ........

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