An inventive

Odd ball gem

Lovingly recreates all the worst traumas of teenage life

-Los Angeles Times

After his girlfriend

(Amanda Wyss)

Ditches him for a boorish ski jock

Better off dead

Off dead

Off dead

Better off dead

Off dead

Off dead

Lane (John Cusack) decides that suicide is the only answer

However

His increasingly inept attempts bring him only more agony and

Embarrassment

Filled with the wildest teenage nightmarеs

Better off dead

Off dеad

Off dead

Better off dead

Off dead

Off dead

A family you can’t help but identify with

And a host of wonderful comic characters

(Air horn)

Savage Steve Holland’s writing/directorial debut

Is a masterful look at those painfully funny teen years

Teen years

Yeah

Better off dead