MOVIE · 1985

Better Off Dead

ComedyRomance97 min

After his girlfriend dumps him for the high school ski champion, Lane Meyer starts spiraling while everything around him gets stranger. John Cusack is Lane, a teenager boxed in by an eccentric family, hounded by a relentless paperboy, and stuck watching jock Roy Stalin become his new rival. Next door, an obnoxious neighbor’s mother is hosting Monique (Diane Franklin), a French exchange student who brings an unexpected connection into Lane’s orbit. David Ogden Stiers and Kim Darby round out the household chaos as Lane heads toward a showdown on the slopes.