This is one of many movies that I didn't see until about 1995, and felt like I'd been missing a decade's worth of it entertaining me. This is one of the cheesy 80's movies that my friends and I like watching every once in a while and quoting it for a while after one of us catches it.
"March 18
"Look Charles, I gotta do this. If I don't, I'll be nothing. I'll end up like my neighbor Ricky Smith. He just sits around crocheting all day and snorting nasal spray."
"He snorts nasal spray? Know where I can score some?"
"ARE YOU GONNA HELP ME OR NOT?"
John Cusack hated this movie so much that he didn't work with the director of this film ever again. You might be surprised to see this but, I actually agree with John Cusack's opinion. The image and quote above shows you the kind o"
"The voice of Yuji Okumoto doing Howard Cosell was dubbed by impressionist Rich Little.
People protested the film's original tagline, "Sometimes...you're Better Off Dead," so it was changed to "Relax...you're never Better Off Dead."
When Beth (Amanda Wyss) shows up at the high school dance, the person standing behind her is wearing Freddy Krueger's sweater. Wyss played Krueger's first victim in A Nightmare on Elm Street. "
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"John Cusack, Better Off Dead
John Cusack reportedly hated his cult 80s comedy so much that he walked out of the screening and later told the film’s director Steve Holland that Better Off Dead was “the worst thing I have ever seen” and he would “never trust you as a director again.”
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