Dead Man on Campus (1998)

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Movies involving campus and university are usually made for teenagers or young adults, since the thematic is basically parties, drugs and sex. However, "Dead Man on Campus", although using some of those elements, it has a different main plot. The idiosyncrasy of each character is showed all the time, delivering nice situations that happen due to the diversity of opinions that they have. Josh is a real student, whilst Cooper is a party guy who doesn't care about studying and getting prepared to the future. The acting as a whole is great, with highlights to Lochlyn Munro, who portrayed a extremely funny character. I couldn't stop laughing when he came in the scene, specially with all those unexpected screaming. The exception of great acting happens with Mark- Paul Gosselaar, whose job seemed to do a little... overacting. In the conversations scenes in the room, he seemed too conversationalist and gesticulatory for a normal dude. Also, it's interesting to notice that, albeit American society wasn't that liberal in the nineties, they've displayed Josh and Cooper as almost a couple, and they weren't antagonized for it. "Dead Man on Campus" is one of the most adult films involving college that I've ever seen, and I believe that young audience won't find it that good as I did.

Under the influence of perpetually partying roommate Mark-Paul Gosselaar (as Cooper Frederickson), medical student Tom Everett Scott (as Josh Miller) trades in his books for beer and bong hits. After failing his mid-terms, Mr. Scott joins Mr. Gosselaar in a fool-proof plan to avoid flunking out of "Daleman College." The school automatically awards straight "A" grades to anyone residing in the same housing unit as a student who commits suicide. Now, the duo must find a suicidal candidate and help him over the edge. Prospects include daredevil party animal Lochlyn Munro (as Cliff O'Malley), psycho computer geek Randy Pearlstein (as Buckley Schrank) and presumably depressed rocker Corey Page (as Matt Noonan)..."Dead Man on Campus" turns a silly situation into fun college hijinks...The atmosphere and characters border authentic, for the times. The biggest "A" goes to Gosselaar, who is the guiding force. Trading in his "Saved by the Bell" blond hair-dye for dark, he is obviously schooled in comic acting. Alan Cohn orchestrates everyone well, and there are a couple of memorable segue moments; the transition from bed sheets to classroom is a highlight. Girls have little to do except remind us that Scott and Gosselaar are probably not having sex (with each other). In this respect, pretty blonde Poppy Montgomery (as Rachel Gilmore) goes to the head of the class... There is much drug use and dirty words, but little skin. Suicidal tendencies and the characters' actions are resolved in a positive manner, but without much depth. ****** Dead Man on Campus (8/1/98) Alan Cohn ~ Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Tom Everett Scott, Poppy Montgomery, Lochlyn Munro

"Dead Man On Campus" is a film about two guys who enroll at Daleman College, and become roommates. Josh enrolls via a scholarship, and is studying to become a doctor, and Cooper, well, he's just there to avoid having to clean toilets for a living at his father's business, and of course, to goof off and party. Josh eventually decides to party with Cooper, and as a result, starts to fail every class he's in. He winds up failing his mid-terms, and he finds out that he needs to maintain a B+ average if he wants to keep his scholarship.One night, while the boys are at a local bar, they find out that if your roommate commits suicide, you get straight As for your grief, so they decide to move a suicidal roommate into their dorm! In my opinion, the best roommate they find is a no holds barred psychotic named Cliff O'Malley (played by the underrated Lochlyn Munro). Cliff is my favorite character in this film! He's so wacky, and he completely lacks sanity or a conscience! Most of his dialogue and facial expressions in this film are priceless!As for their other roommates: Buckley: He's a computer nerd who's paranoid, suicidal, and thinks Bill Gates is after his brain! Matt Noonan: He's the "depressed" goth rock star who acts happy and likes to sing show tunes when no one's around! In the end: For off the wall teen comedies, this is as good as it gets. This movie originally bombed at the box office when released in August of 1998, and seems to be forgotten nowadays, but trust me, it's funny, and the character Cliff totally makes it worth the admission! It's bound to become a cult classic sooner or later.

This film is one of the most underrated films i have ever seen. The film follows 2 roommates Coop and Josh and there plan to have a roommate kill himself so they can achieve straight A's. Although that storyline only comes in the second half of the film for the first half we just spend the time in college with the boys. The chemistry between the 2 leads is great and Mark Paul Gosselar sort of plays his role as Zack from SBTB for a more adult audience ( which i thought was genius), his charisma meant that I was never bored.why he never broke into the A list I don't know. but its all politics. It is one of the most quotable films i have ever seen,with so many great characters The comedy here is not for everyone but if you like films which don't take themselves seriously then this is for you. The soundtrack is also great and has Dust Brother as executive producers would you believe it (they did the soundtrack for fight club among others) The icing on the cake though is Cliff O Malley the insane party Animal who really should have got more screen time, he makes every scene he is in and I was just crying with laughter, he really is a match for Bluto. This film is great to watch with a bunch of mates I give it 9/10