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'''[[Better Off Dead']]'' is a 1985 comedy film directed by [[Savage Steve Holland]] and starring [[John Cusack]].

After being dumped by his utterly-unfaithful girlfriend, luckless teen Lane Meyer makes several futile attempts to kill himself, while wandering in and out of a series of encounters with the <s>inmates</s> residents... inmates of his bizarre hometown. These include his super-genius younger brother Badger, his severely-underachieving best friend Charles, a pair of Korean car-racing enthusiasts who learned English by listening towatching Howard Cosell, and one ''very'' determined paper-boy. Lane's life finally begins to turn around when he meets Monique, a comely French exchange student who has been sentenced to live with Lane's grotesque neighbors.

Probably doesn't ''quite'' make it to classic status, especially the ending which {{spoiler|veers off into painfully straight teen-movie win-the-athletic-competition territory}}, but mentioning this film or quoting from it is very likely to bring a smile to the face of Tropers of a certain age. It does have a pretty strong cult following due to the fact that aside from that ending, it has a very different sense of humor thanfrom most 80's80s teen comedies and seems far less dated than other films of its type.