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Better Off Dead... (1985) [PG|PG-13]

Release Date:
August 23, 1985

Original Title:
Better Off Dead...

Alternate Titles:
Better of Dead
Jobb ha hulla vagy
La mujer de sus sueños
Más vale muerto
Sapore di hamburger
Ölməkdən Betər
やぶれかぶれ一発勝負
やぶれかぶれ一発勝負!!

Genres:
Comedy | Romance

Production Companies:
A&M Films
CBS Theatrical Films
Warner Bros. Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: PG  GB: 15  US: PG|PG-13 

Runtime: 97

Insanity doesn't run in the family, it gallops.

Overview from TheMovieDB

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.

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Production

Art Designer:
Drew Struzan

Assistant Property Master:
Bud Peifer Jr.

Associate Editor:
Nancy Forner

Associate Producer:
William Strom

Boom Operator:
Gene Ashbrook

Camera Operator:
Rick Neff

Casting:
Caro Jones

Costume Design:
Brad R. Loman

Costumer:
David Roester

Director:
Savage Steve Holland

Director of Photography:
Isidore Mankofsky

Dolly Grip:
Jim Dunford

Editor:
Alan Balsam

Executive Producer:
Andrew Meyer
Gil Friesen

First Assistant Camera:
Malcolm Brown

First Assistant Director:
Yudi Bennett

Gaffer:
Jake Jarrell

Grip:
Jan Gould

Hairstylist:
Georgina Williams

Key Grip:
Tom Kessenich

Location Manager:
Huw Davies

Makeup Artist:
James R. Scribner

Music Editor:
Ted Roberts

Music Supervisor:
David Anderle

Original Music Composer:
Rupert Hine

Producer:
Michael Jaffe

Production Design:
Herman F. Zimmerman

Property Master:
Art Lipschultz

Script Supervisor:
Maria Lease

Second Assistant Camera:
Frederick Hamm

Second Assistant Director:
Jann Dutmer

Second Unit Director:
Fred Lerner

Second Unit Director of Photography:
Frank M. Holgate

Set Decoration:
Gary Moreno

Sound Effects Editor:
Dick Vandenberg

Sound Mixer:
Bud Alper

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Richard Tyler
John L. Mack
Don MacDougall

Special Effects:
Roy L. Downey

Stunt Coordinator:
Fred Lerner

Stunt Double:
Jim Dunn

Stunts:
Bill McIntosh
Tom Morga
Bill Hart
Jean Coulter
Wally Rose
Keith Harvey
Johnny Hock
A. Michael Lerner
Greg Wayne Elam
George Fisher
Wayne King
Harvey Parry
Frank Beddor
Sandy Berumen
Kent Hays
Hank Calia
Peter Stader
Jeff Jensen
Cha Cha Sandoval-McMahon
Rick Seaman
Sharon Schaffer
Debbie Lynn Ross
Dick Warlock
Neil Summers
Mark Yerkes
Bruce Paul Barbour
Chere Rae
Faith Minton

Supervising Sound Editor:
William Hooper

Transportation Coordinator:
David Jernigan

Unit Production Manager:
Jack Clements

Unit Publicist:
Shelley Kirkwood

Writer:
Savage Steve Holland

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