Lane Meyer (Cusack) has the entire standard (only if they are yours, not so standard) problems and people to put up with. He has a car (if he puts it together). He has a mother who makes boiled bacon and many other delicacies. The standard mix of schoolmates and a love problem. Naturally, everything is going downhill until the neighbors bring in a female French exchange student. Will she be able to get him out of his slump, or cause more anguish so that he would be “Better Off Dead”?
It is all the little things that you can relate to and the fantasy scenes that make the movie. They are too numerous to mention here, but many people, after watching this movie, tend to look at each other and say,
“I WANT MY TWO DOLLARS!”
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