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Dead Man on Campus

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Original title

Dead Man on Campus

Year

1998

Running time

95 min.

Country

United States

Director

Alan Cohn

Screenwriter

Mike White, Michael Traeger. Story: Anthony Abrams, Adam Larson Broder

Cast

Music

Mark Mothersbaugh

Cinematography

John Thomas

Producer

Pacific Western, MTV Films. Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Genre

Comedy | Teen Comedy. Schools & University

Synopsis

Two students, one, a slacker, and the other, a student on scholarship, find out in their college's charter that if your roomate commits suicide, you get straight As for your grief. They then go looking for the perfect roomate when the student on scholarship starts to fail his classes.

Critics' reviews

"Although it falls far short of fulfilling its full potential as a dark comedy of desperation, Dead Man on Campus is a modestly amusing trifle"

Joe Leydon: Variety
"The story's not much, but this dark comedy contains moments of unexpected wit."

TV Guide
"The overall premise, involving mental illness and suicide, isn't all that funny, at least not in practice, and the picture begins to seem labored and long"

Mick LaSalle: San Francisco Chronicle
"A predictably dumb movie made for very young audiences"

Anita Gates: The New York Times
"The bad news is that the opening credits, which make sick and darkly comic allusions to suicide, are the best thing about the film"

Michael O'Sullivan: The Washington Post
"The product of a first-time director and writers who have no sense of scene structure or shape, or even a discernible sense of humour."

Liam Lacey: The Globe and Mail

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Dead Man on Campus

1998

Alan Cohn

5.0

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