Directed by Savage Steve Holland. Written by Savage Steve Holland

Lane Myer

• Joanne Greenwald... the girl with the antennae on her face?
• I'm real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky.
• She only speaks French, Roy. She doesn't speak imbecile.
• [why he can't pay the paper boy] Uh, my brother, this morning, got his arm caught in the microwave, and my grandmother, she dropped acid and freaked out and hijaked a schoolbus full of...penguins.
• I gotta go, the Christmas tree is on fire. [hangs up the phone.]

Charles de Mar

• I've been going to this high school for seven and a half years! I'm no dummy!
• This is pure snow. It's everywhere! Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?
• Dying when you're not really sick is really sick, you know. Really!
• [giving skiing instructions] Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.

Others

• Beth Truss: She dates the basketball team. Not certain members of the team, Lane, the whole team!
• Johnny Gasparini (paper boy): I want my two dollars! (repeated line)
• Monique Junot: I think all you need is a small taste of success, and you will find it suits you.
• Roy Stalin: [Upon seeing Lane] Oscar Meyer!
• Roy Stalin: Beth, you were standing with Oscar. Is he your main wiener man?
• Tree Trimmer: [After Lane falls into a dump truck off of a bridge] Man, that's a real shame when folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that.

Dialogue

Jenny Myer: How was your day?

Lane Myer: Beth just dumped me.

Jenny Myer: Oh, that's nice.

Monique Junot: Instead he just uses it as an excuse to put his testicles all over me!

Lane Myer: Sorry, what?

Monique Junot: Uh, how you say... octopus... testicles.

Lane Myer: No, tentacles. N-T. There's a big Difference.

Taglines

• Insanity doesn't run in the family, it gallops
• Teenage life has never been darker...or funnier...

Cast

• John Cusack - Lane Myer
• David Ogden Stiers - Al Meyer
• Kim Darby - Jenny Meyer
• Demian Slade - Johnny Gasparini
• Scooter Stevens - Badger Meyer
• Diane Franklin - Monique Junot
• Laura Waterbury - Mrs. Smith
• Daniel Schneider - Ricky Smith