MPAA Rating: PG
Director: "Savage Steve" Holland
Starring: John Cusack, Curtis Armstrong, Diane Franklin, Scooter Stevens, David Ogden Stiers
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Lane (John Cusack) tries to commit suicide a variety of ways after his girlfriend dumps him but he finds salvation with the French exchange student (Diane Franklin). Meanwhile, the newspaper boy keeps harassing him: "I want my 2 dollars!" The action culminates with a ski race on the legendary "K-12" slope.
As usual, Curtis Armstrong as Lane's befuddled buddy, "Charles De Mar," steals the show with lines like "He snorts nasal spray? You know where I can score some?" AND "Outrageous! This is pure snow! It's everywhere! I think I just froze the left half of my brain!"
TorreyakaVicki@aol.com - 2007-04-14 15:10:46
Definitely not Cusacks best but it's a cute film with a workable plot. Big thing here to not take the whole suicide thing too seriously.
Brandon Dean - 2007-04-15 21:32:56
While it may be hard to imagine that the idea of suicide could be funny, this movie is not really about suicide. It is a commentary about how teenagers so often convince themselves they are in love, and that this "love" has any real depth, when to even a casual observer the whole relationship was nothing to be taken seriously. Frankly, I love this movie and never tire of watching it. The humor is over the top, so you have to appreciate the campy 80's love-story genre...
Abe Lincoln - 2008-09-09 12:44:50
A very underrated movie. There is a fantasy scene where lane is working a fast food grill and imagines the food coming to life and playing like Van Halen. Very funny stuff.