Dead Man on Campus
1,012
Comedy
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.
Author | Review | ||
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United States | Variety | "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" | POS |
United States | TV Guide | "The story's not much, but this dark comedy contains moments of unexpected wit." | NEU |
United States | San Francisco Chronicle | "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" | NEG |
United States | The New York Times | "A predictably dumb movie made for very young audiences" | NEU |
Canada | The Globe and Mail | "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." | NEG |
United States | The Washington Post | "The bad news is that the opening credits, which make sick and darkly comic allusions to suicide, are the best thing about the film" | NEU |
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