Lanny turns up

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Movie
German title Lanny turns up
Original title Better Off Dead
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1985
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Savage Steve Holland
script Savage Steve Holland
production Gil Friesen
Michael Jaffe
Andrew Meyer
music Rupert Hine
camera Isidore Mankofsky
cut Alan balm
occupation

Lanny Turns On is an American comedy film starring John Cusack and David Ogden Stiers , directed by Savage Steve Holland in 1985 .

content

Lane “Lanny” Meyer, a high school student in California, is narrowly defeated in an elimination race for the high school ski team. Immediately afterwards he is left by his girlfriend Beth in favor of the ski trainer Roy. Lanny decides to kill herself, but changes her mind because he hasn't been to Disneyland yet. Further attempts follow, all of which end lightly.

While his somewhat eccentric family is preparing for Christmas, the French exchange student Monique arrives at Mrs. Smith's next door. Ricky Smith, the son of the house, is supposed to hook up with the young girl according to Mrs. Smith's wishes. Monique knows how to prevent this by only speaking French. Further catastrophes are not long in coming, so Lanny is challenged daily by two Asians to a car race at a traffic light and the search for a new girlfriend turns out to be extremely difficult. School performance also suffer from separation stress.

Only Lanny's good friend Charles cares about him. He suggests walking down the K 12, the most difficult downhill run far and wide, and announces this plan over the school's loudspeaker system. In the meantime, Mrs. Smith, Ricky and Monique were guests in the Meyers' house, whereby Mrs. Smith suffers a small accident and henceforth can no longer bring Ricky and Monique to school. So Lanny has to do this job too.

Christmas approaches and Monique confesses to Lanny that she has no language problems and that she adores the Los Angeles Dodgers . The next day they both start repairing Lanny's Camaro . The sports car is immediately tried out by driving and winning a race against the two Asians. As a thank you, Lanny invites Monique to a candlelight dinner in a hamburger restaurant. The next day the two practice skiing so that Lane can do his announced descent from the K 12. A ski binding breaks due to a mishap, so Lane does the descent on one ski. Once at the bottom, Beth obviously wants to change partners again, but Lanny stays with Monique. Ricky claims his rights again, but is defeated in a ski pole duel. Lane immediately drives to Los Angeles with Monique to grant her a heartfelt desire: a visit to the LA Dodgers stadium .

criticism

"Teenage comedy off the assembly line, full of gags of the cheapest kind and commercial slapstick scenes."

- Lexicon of international film

Soundtrack

  1. With One Look (The Wildest Dream) - 3:26 (composed by Torrence Merdur / Rupert Hine)
  2. Arrested By You - 5:07 (composed by Torrence Merdur / Rupert Hine)
  3. Shine - 3:49 (composed by Martin Ansell)
  4. Better Off Dub (Title Music) - 3:48 (composed by Rupert Hine)
  5. Dancing In Isolation - 4:04 (composed by Torrence Merdur / Rupert Hine)
  6. Come to Your Rescue - 5:03 (composed by Jeanette Therese Obstoj / Rupert Hine)
  7. A Little Luck - 4:21 (composed by Angela Rubin)
  8. The Falcon Beat (Instrumental) - 2:37 (composed by Rupert Hine)
  9. One Way Love (Better Off Dead) - 3:33 (composed by Steve Goldstein / Duane Hitchings / Craig Krampf / Eric Nelson)
  10. Race The K-12 - 3:49 (composed by Rupert Hine)

publication

The film opened in US cinemas on August 23, 1985 and was able to gross over 10.2 million US dollars again. In Germany the film was released directly on VHS in March 1988 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lanny turns up. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Better Off Dead at boxofficemojo.com , accessed May 19, 2012