http://movies.tvguide.com/better-dead/130921?rss=object The latest on Better Off Dead TV Guide RSS Publishing Engine V 1.0 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 1440 http://www.tvguide.com/images/tvg_rss_logo.gif http://movies.tvguide.com/better-dead/130921?rss=object http://video.tvguide.com/ID/818732?rss=object <p><a href="http://video.tvguide.com/ID/818732?rss=object"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://videodetective.com/photos/131/00554023_.jpg" width="60" height="45" alt="Better Off Dead" style="margin:0 5px 5px" /></a>Mare Winningham stars in this made-for-cable TV movie about a woman who, after a lifetime of bad luck, ends up on death row -- where she insists the sentence be carried out promptly. Film was co-produced by author and noted feminist Gloria Steinem. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.</p> Video Detective http://video.tvguide.com/ID/818732?rss=object Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:57:40 -0400 <p><a href="http://video.tvguide.com/ID/818732?rss=object"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://videodetective.com/photos/131/00554023_.jpg" width="60" height="45" alt="Better Off Dead" style="margin:0 5px 5px" /></a>Mare Winningham stars in this made-for-cable TV movie about a woman who, after a lifetime of bad luck, ends up on death row -- where she insists the sentence be carried out promptly. Film was co-produced by author and noted feminist Gloria Steinem. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.</p> Better Off Dead http://video.tvguide.com/ID/812045?rss=object <p><a href="http://video.tvguide.com/ID/812045?rss=object"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://videodetective.com/photos/006/00026824_.jpg" width="60" height="45" alt="Better Off Dead" style="margin:0 5px 5px" /></a>Most animation aficionados of the 1990s know Savage Steve Holland as the cocreator (with Bill Kopp) of the all-stops-out TV cartoon series Eek! The Cat. But Holland had been exercising his own peculiar brand of deviltry on live characters long before Eek! came into being. In Holland's Better Off Dead, John Cusack plays a lovestruck teenager, hopelessly enamored with Amanda Wyss. When she dumps him in favor of a more popular high-schooler, the boy's entire day quickly goes to Hell. In the words of Hamlet, all occasions do inform against Cusack: he is bullied, tormented and torn apart by everyone from the paperboy (who seemingly turns up everywhere) to the disembodied voice of a radio deejay. Cusack attempts suicide, but his efforts are just as unsuccessful-and amusing-as Bud Cort's in Harold and Maude. Meanwhile, French exchange student Diane Franklin, held a virtual prisoner by her host family, develops a long-distance crush on Cusack. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.</p> Video Detective http://video.tvguide.com/ID/812045?rss=object Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:24:47 -0400 <p><a href="http://video.tvguide.com/ID/812045?rss=object"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://videodetective.com/photos/006/00026824_.jpg" width="60" height="45" alt="Better Off Dead" style="margin:0 5px 5px" /></a>Most animation aficionados of the 1990s know Savage Steve Holland as the cocreator (with Bill Kopp) of the all-stops-out TV cartoon series Eek! The Cat. But Holland had been exercising his own peculiar brand of deviltry on live characters long before Eek! came into being. In Holland's Better Off Dead, John Cusack plays a lovestruck teenager, hopelessly enamored with Amanda Wyss. When she dumps him in favor of a more popular high-schooler, the boy's entire day quickly goes to Hell. In the words of Hamlet, all occasions do inform against Cusack: he is bullied, tormented and torn apart by everyone from the paperboy (who seemingly turns up everywhere) to the disembodied voice of a radio deejay. Cusack attempts suicide, but his efforts are just as unsuccessful-and amusing-as Bud Cort's in Harold and Maude. Meanwhile, French exchange student Diane Franklin, held a virtual prisoner by her host family, develops a long-distance crush on Cusack. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.</p> Better Off Dead