Better Off Dead...
Comedy • PG • 1985 • 1 hr 37 min
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More a collection of bits and sketches loosely grouped than a traditional film, but free spirted & unique for an 80s teen comedy
Hilarious classic with a dark sense of humor
This and One Crazy Summer were some of my fav go-to LOL movies of the 80s. Both Savage Steve Holland creations had such quotable material.
Such a great, oddball romance movie, with stellar direction and a fun group of characters
The epitome of dark comedy, ironically campy and must watch.
Fun movie, in the same class as “Ferris Buellers Day Off”, and nearly as funny. Captures a lot of teenage insecurity and makes it comical.
After all these years and it’s still funny to watch. The humor captures the insecurity’s of anybody who’s ever fell in love.
It’s another 80s teen rom-com, but it’s so quotable and fun. Just watch it for the comedic details and forget the main plot. Hilarious!
One of the best comedies of the 80s!!! Must See.
It has the spirit of a Nihilist, the mind of a Daydreamer, and the body of a sloppy, love-stricken teen comedy. Reason eclipsed by chaos.
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Grocery store clerk Simon occasionally sells drugs from his cash register at work, so when soap opera actors Adam and Zack come looking for Ecstasy on a quiet Christmas Eve, they are surprised to find Ronna covering his shift. Desperate for money, Ronna decides to become an impromptu drug dealer, unaware that Adam and Zack are secretly working for obsessed narcotics officer Burke.
A group of young adults in their twenties, who share an apartment in the city of Seattle, ponder on love and face all the challenges of adulthood.
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is then hired to jump into a volcano by a mysterious visitor.
Self-made millionaire Thornton Melon decides to get a better education and enrolls at his son Jason's college. While Jason tries to fit in with his fellow students, Thornton struggles to gain his son's respect, giving way to hilarious antics.
Chris is the top brain who just wants to party, Mitch is the 15-year-old college wiz kid. Supposedly hard at work on a lab project with a mysterious deadline, they still find time to use their genius to discover new ways to have fun.
Martin Blank is a hitman for hire. When he starts to develop a conscience, he botches a couple of routine jobs. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist, he decides to attend his ten-year high school reunion in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
When investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug trade at a local beach, he's approached by wealthy businessman Alan Stanwyk, who offers him $50,000 to murder him. With sarcastic wit and a knack for disguises, Fletch sets out to uncover Stanwyk's story.
