“And I’m like, ‘Well, wait a minute-it wasn't supposed to be funny. “Henry took me to lunch and he said that my movie was so funny,” Holland told Fast Company. Henry Winkler saw the film and took a liking to Holland. In the early 1980s, Holland’s short film, My 11-Year-Old Birthday Party, played at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Henry Winkler / David Livingston/GettyImages Henry Winkler played a part in getting the movie made. And my mom comes and starts yelling at me for breaking a pipe, which is what any mom would do.” Holland journaled his mishaps and used them as a guide in writing the movie. And I’m basically in a garbage can, drowning. “I went into the garage, and I put an extension cord on a pipe, and I’m on a garbage can, and I’m thinking, ‘Should I do this? Maybe this isn’t a good idea.’ Anyway, it was a plastic garbage can, and my weight just like crashed through it and I fell, and the pipe broke! And it starts pouring water everywhere. The film’s darkest elements, including Lane’s attempted suicide in the garage, were also rooted in the autobiographical. “And then she sent me cookies and stuff.” “I got a call-I don’t know how she got my number-and she said, ‘I’ve been in therapy because I saw your movie and I had no idea,’” Holland told The Sneeze. Six years after the movie came out, his ex got in touch with him. Savage Steve Holland wrote the script based on his own high school girlfriend, who did indeed leave him for the captain of the ski team. Better Off Dead is based on a true story. Here are some things you might not have known about one of the greatest cult teen movies of all time. Through a friendship with a foreign exchange student named Monique (Diane Franklin), Lane realizes he’s better off alive. The movie centers on Lane Myer (John Cusack), a teenager left devastated when his high school girlfriend, Beth (Amanda Wyss), leaves him for the captain of the ski team. “It was always out at any Blockbuster Video I walked into, and then I’d talk to the guys who worked there and they were like, ‘You know, people rent it and they don’t bring it back.’” “Those video stores just completely saved Better Off Dead,” Holland told Fast Company. With a limited release in August 1985 and a wider release in October, Better Off Dead grossed less than $10.3 million at the box office, but years later found a strong following via cable and home video. Savage Steve Holland-who animated the Press Your Luck Whammy-wrote and directed Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer, and directed How I Got into College before quitting teen films to pursue directing, writing, and producing children’s TV programs.
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