Better Off Dead...
Insanity doesn't run in the family, it gallops.
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Country
Budget
$3 500 000
Box office
$10 297 601
Director
Actors
John Cusack, Amanda Wyss, Diane Franklin, Aaron Dozier, Curtis Armstrong, David Ogden Stiers, Kim Darby, Demian Slade, Laura Waterbury, Dan Schneider
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Michael Jaffe, Gil Friesen, Andrew Meyer
Camera operator
Composer
Rupert Hine
Artist
Herman F. Zimmerman, Bill Kopp, Jimmy Picker
Audition
Caro Jones
Editing
Alan Balsam
Whole Team (76)
Whole Team (76)
Short description
High school student Lane Meyer sinks into suicidal depression when his girlfriend dumps him for jock Roy Stalin, the high school ski racing champion. Meanwhile, he has to deal with his eccentric family, a tenacious paperboy and an obnoxious neighbor whose mother is hosting a beautiful French exchange student named Monique.
What's left behind the scenes
- According to director and screenwriter Savage Steve Holland, the film is largely autobiographical. He genuinely considered suicide when his girlfriend left him for the captain of the ski team. He really did know a newspaper boy named Johnny Gasperini who tormented him. According to Holland, when the film was released, his ex-girlfriend called him to apologize.
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