This is a dull re-iteration of the odd-couple theme and makes no cohesive attempt at storytelling.
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01/01/00
Dead Man on Campus (1998)
15 %
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Reviews Counted: 34
Fresh: 5
Rotten:29
Average Rating: 3.6/10
Consensus: Not much of a story.
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Dark comedy based on the apocryphal university policy of awarding straight A's to students whose roomates kill themselves. Two freshman dunces seek to boost their academic performance by inviting a series of depressed,... [More]
Starring: Tom Everett Scott, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Poppy Montgomery, Lochlyn Munro
Director: Alan Cohn
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Reviews for Dead Man on Campus
Top Critic As a satire of new-style collegiate types, this MTV production actually evinces a few germs of rancid wit. If only the laborious high-concept plot had been deep-sixed -- and, along with it, the cynically blah heroes.
06/16/08
It is a movie whose appeal will diminish in direct proportion to the number of years it has been since you were a sexually-frustrated, pimply-faced undergrad.
06/16/08
Top Critic This limp 1998 comedy tries hard to be both irreverent and ethical by suggesting that deceit motivated by self-interest is OK as long as no one gets hurt.
06/16/08
Dead Man will remind any college grad of the fun and freedom of freshman year, and the wide variety of personalities met there.
02/08/03
Some of the endless drug-sex-rock-’n’-roll gags are cute, but most are so paper-thin they disintegrate on contact with fresh air.
10/15/02
If you have a roommate you really want to see suffer, here's a suggestion: Buy him or her a ticket to Dead Man on Campus.
04/12/02
Maybe it was my low expectations, but I actually think that people will not appreciate how much suckage was avoided in the making of this film.
10/24/01
The trouble is that it's not remotely funny enough not to seem merely strained, silly and even disgusting in its ultimate endorsement of conning your way into academic survival.
02/14/01
Top Critic All three would-be suicides are over the top and fun to watch. Too bad the film they're in seems to have been at least partly written and directed by Beavis and Butt-head.
01/01/00
Top Critic Have you seen the one about the college kids who try to get their roommate to kill himself so they can get straight As? Oh, you have?
01/01/00
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