Movie
1985
Better Off Dead is a 1985 American teen comedy film written and directed by Savage Steve Holland. It stars John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Diane Franklin and Kim Darby. The film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on August 23, 1985.
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Teen suicide is a serious subject that many would consider to be completely inappropriate as the plot element of teen comedy. Savage Steve Holland, writer and director of 1985 teen comedy *Better Off Dead* can, in his defence, say that his work is autobiographical and actually inspired by his own failed attempts to kill himself in teen years. Holland’s fictional alter ego and protagonist, played by John Cusack, is L…More
