Title: Better Off Dead... (1985)
Tagline: Insanity doesn't run in the family, it gallops.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Savage Steve Holland
Cast: John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Kim Darby, Demian Slade, Amanda Wyss, Diane Franklin, Scooter Stevens, Curtis Armstrong, Yuji Okumoto, Brian Imada, Laura Waterbury, Dan Schneider, Chuck Mitchell, Aaron Dozier, Frank Burt Avalon, Vincent Schiavelli, Taylor Negron, Elizabeth Daily
Release: 1985-10-11
Runtime: 97
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.
