“Better Off Dead” quotes
(1985)
Title Better Off Dead
Original title Better Off Dead...
Year 1985
Director Savage Steve Holland
Genre Comedy, Romance
Original title Better Off Dead...
Year 1985
Director Savage Steve Holland
Genre Comedy, Romance
Plot – Lane Myer is a 16-year-old American boy. When he doesn’t qualify in the school’s ski team, he loses the respect of Beth Truss, his girlfriend, while the arrogant Roy Stalin is successful in the qualification and wins Beth’s heart. Lane is listless and depressed, he doesn’t want to fix the old car that his father gave him and he starts working in a deli but he is a bungler. He even tries to commit suicide, but fortunately he changes his mind; then he meets Monique Junet, a lively French girl, who has to spend the year in the neighbor’s house. Mrs Smith, the neighbor, wants to match the girl up with his greedy and fat son Rocky. Monique comforts Lane: the two guys fix the car together and she challenges him to race down a risky K 2’s rink. Lane trains and the results are poor, but Monique is ready to assist him until his extraordinary win.
All actors – John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Kim Darby, Demian Slade, Scooter Stevens, Diane Franklin, Laura Waterbury, Dan Schneider, Yuji Okumoto, Brian Imada, Chuck Mitchell, Amanda Wyss
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“- Monique Junot: I figured if we had nothing to say to each other he would get bored; go away. But instead he uses it as an excuse to put his testicles all over me.
- Lane Myer: Excuse me?
- Monique Junot: You know, like octopus? Testicles?
- Lane Myer: Ohhhh. Tentacles. N-t. Tentacles; big difference.”“The K-12 dude. You make a gnarly run like that and girls will get sterile just looking at you.”
“I think all you need is a small taste of success, and you will find it suits you.”
“I've been going to this high school for seven and a half years. I'm no dummy. I know high school girls.”
“Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.”
“She only speaks French, Roy. She doesn't speak imbecile.”
“- Lane Mayer: I have great fear of tools. I once made a birdhouse in woodshop and the fair housing committee condemned it. I can't.
- Monique Junot: I cannot do it is your middle name.”“Suicide is never the answer, little trooper.”
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