Better Off Dead

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DVD Release Date:

07/16/2002

Run Time:

97min.

Starring:

John Cusack , David Ogden Stiers , Kim Darby , Demian Slade , Scooter Stevens

Director(s):

Savage Steve Holland

Distributor(s):

Warner Brothers

Genre(s):

Comedy

Plot: Most animation aficionados of the 1990s know "Savage Steve Holland" as the cocreator (with Bill Kopp) of the all-stops-out TV cartoon series Eek! The Cat. Read More

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