Better Off Dead... Page #3

Synopsis: 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?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Production: CBS Entertainment Production
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
51
Rotten Tomatoes:
78%
PG
Year:
1985
97 min
5,275 Views


got his arm caught

in the microwave and...

and my grandmother dropped acid

and freaked out...

and hijacked a school bus

full of penguins.

So it's kind of a family crisis.

So come back later? Great.

Breakin'up is hard to do

Don't take your love...

- To me, and she's gone

- And she's gone

Fifty ways to leave your lover

Hurts so bad

They say that breakin'up

is hard to do...

The three cardinal

trapezoidal formations...

hereto made orientable

in our diagram...

by connecting

the various points...

HIGK, PEGQ and LMNO...

creating our geometric

configurations...

which have no properties,

but with location...

are equal to

the described triangle CAB...

quintuplicated.

Therefore...

it is also

the five triangles...

composing

the aforementioned NIGH.

Each are equal to the triangle

CAB in this geometric concept.

Therefore, in a like manner...

the geometric metaphors...

can derive

a repeated vectoral sum.

This was your assignment...

and I would like

to see the results.

Please, take them out.

Oops.

Sophia.

- And Buster.

- Please!

- Me! Me!

- And... Beth.

- And...

- Please! Please!

- Please, please!

- Mr. Myer.

Please join us

at the blackboard...

and show us your solution

to this paltry geometric dilemma.

Sorry.

For God's sakes,

would you relax?

- It's just our virginity.

- Yeah, I agree totally.

I feel like we should tell someone

or do something.

I can get my dad's Polaroid

or something.

- What was that?

- What was what?

I heard something.

We're in the most secluded place

in the Northern Hemisphere.

I assure you

we are totally alone.

Come on.

What's wrong?

That thing I put on me...

it broke.

Broke? It broke?

- Take it easy. I'll buy a new one.

- I don't want a new one!

- Do you know what that means?

- I'm sorry! I'm sorry!

Now, now.

I'll see you all tomorrow.

Just remember to memorize pages

- All right!

- Cool!

I just can't wait

till tomorrow.

Wait for me at my locker.

Listen...

I've been thinking about what

you told me last night...

and I've decided

I'm gonna help you.

How?

I've been going to this high school

for 71/2 years.

I'm no dummy.

I know high school girls.

Two things. One...

how about your sax?

The thing about Roy is

he plays the guitar.

- He does?

- Yeah. Girls love that.

- Why don't you take up sax again?

- Number two?

The K-12, dude.

You make a gnarly run

like that...

and girls will get sterile

just looking at you.

Would you stay behind?

I'd like a word with you.

We'll do this.

Talk to you later.

Yes, sir?

This is a bit awkward.

Yes, sir.

Well...

I've heard a few things, and...

Well, I was wondering...

if you would mind

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Savage Steve Holland

Savage Steve Holland (born 1960) is an American writer, producer, voice actor, animator, and film director who wrote and directed the cult films Better Off Dead (1985) and One Crazy Summer (1986), starring John Cusack. He also directed the film How I Got Into College (1989), and animated the "Whammy" on the game show Press Your Luck. He later went on to create and produce Eek! the Cat for Fox Kids. Now, he manages his own studio, Savage Studios Ltd. and directs shows for Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. He studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts, where one of his student projects Going Nowhere Fast (1980), was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art show Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures. more…

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