Watch: Better Off Dead… 1985 123movies, Full Movie Online – The teenager Lane Meyer has a crush on his girlfriend Beth Truss. When Beth dumps him to stay with the successful skier Roy Stalin, Lane is depressed and decides to commit suicide. However he gives up and tries to improve his skill of skier to ski the dangerous K12 slope to impress Beth. Meanwhile his neighbor Mrs. Smith receives the exchange French student Monique Junot and her fat son Ricky Smith considers Monique his girlfriend; however, Monique has an unrequited crush on Lane that does not note her. When Lane stumbles upon Monique in a high-school party, he befriends her. The upset Lane challenges Roy in a competition on the K12 slope but then he regrets. However Monique is a great mechanic and skier, and fix Lane’s Camaro and teaches him how to ski the K12 slope. What will happen to Lane?.
Plot: 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.
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Unconventional teen movie with surreal elements
I’ve seen “Better Off Dead…” in late 2017. I have a tendency to avoid teen comedies or coming-of-age films once I passed into adulthood. To my defense, most teen films done lately are atrocities, to say the least, with dumb down characters, playing on stereotypes and modern social issues in the wrong way. Not ten minutes in and I instantly regretted not seeing this movie earlier. It has such a wacky take on teenage days in the 80’s, with a hint of surreal and supernatural.“Better Off Dead…” is about a high school student, played by boy-wonder John Cusack, who gets dumped by his girlfriend, leaving him with suicidal inclinations while trying to win her back by extreme measures. The characters are simply excellent, just mildly stereotyping the teen genre, with a memorable newspaper boy and his eternal yell “I want my two dollars!”
Savage Steve Holland’s debut film would assure him as a cult director, but sadly once the 90’s emerged, he would fall into an abyss of mediocraty.
“Better Off Dead…” is a unique teen movie that captures the vibe of the 80’s and is an essential watch in a period where the “brat-pack” ruled.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 37 min (97 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 10297601
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Comedy, Romance
Director Savage Steve Holland
Writer Savage Steve Holland
Actors John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Kim Darby
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Lenses and Panaflex Camera by Panavision
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints), Consolidated Film Industries (CFI), Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm