His fans know "Better Off Dead" as the closing track of his landmark 1971 album Just As I Am. The song is a suicide note in verse form, left by an alcoholic despairing that his wife has deserted ...

Savage Steve Holland—who animated the Press Your Luck Whammy—wrote and directed Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer ... I mean, I love when he says, ‘It’s a shame to throw away a ...

Eighties fans almost universally love the 1985 flick Better Off Dead. John Cusack? Not so much. He reportedly walked out of the first screening and blasted director Savage Steve Holland for ...

The 1985 film Better Off Dead helped cement John Cusack as one ... actually happened to the filmmaker. Lane learns to love again, thanks to a French exchange student and he gains the confidence ...

“Better Off Dead, to me, is my favorite film I ever did,” Franklin told ComicBook.com. “For a lot of reasons — I love a lot of my work, I really do. I’m very proud of a lot of the things ...

I really wanted him to love it as much as I loved it." As we honor three decades of Better Off Dead, here are five things you probably didn't know about the movie. 1. TWO DOLLARS: In real life ...

Karina Longworth interviews Savage Steve Holland at LA Weekly, timed to this weekend’s double feature of his cult classics “Better Off Dead” and ... s the foreign love interest, the ...