80's Movie Weekend

In keeping with my Van Halen theme this weekend, we're taking a look back at a singing hamburger in 1985. Yes, I've already featured the classic John Cusack movie "Better Off Dead" in The Excellent 80's before, but it's worth another trip...

Here is the Eddie Van Halen guitar playing hamburger performing "Everybody Wants Some"...



Johnny wants his two dollars and he'll stop at nothing to get it!



It's a Better Off Dead Christmas...



Better Off Dead

Directed by Savage Steve Holland
Produced by Gil Friesen
Michael Jaffe
Andrew Meyer
Written by Savage Steve Holland
Starring John Cusack
David Ogden Stiers
Diane Franklin
Curtis Armstrong
Amanda Wyss
Music by Rupert Hine
Cinematography Isidore Mankofsky
Distributed by
Warner Bros.
Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) August 23, 1985
Running time 97 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office $10,297,601

80's Movie Weekend

I want my two dollars! Anything with John Cusack (and Booger) in it from the 80's was fantastic!



And any movie where David Lee Roth can be a singing hambuger playing Eddie's guitar is just a real bonus for that movie...



Better Off Dead

Better Off Dead movie poster
Directed by Savage Steve Holland
Produced by Gil Friesen
Michael Jaffe
Andrew Meyer
Written by Savage Steve Holland
Starring John Cusack
David Ogden Stiers
Diane Franklin
Curtis Armstrong
Music by Rupert Hine
Cinematography Isodore Mankofsky
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date(s) October 11, 1985 (U.S. release)
Running time 97 minutes
Country USA
Language English