SummaryTom Everett Scott and Mark-Paul Gosselaar play new roommates Josh and Cooper. Josh is the studious type, Cooper's the nothing-succeeds-like-excess guy--a lifestyle that rubs off on Josh and soon has both in danger of
flunking out. But there's a catch: a clause in the schools charter awards A's to students who suffer the trauma of a roommate's sui... Read More
Directed By:Alan Cohn
Written By:Anthony Abrams, Adam Larson Broder, Michael Traeger, Mike White
Dead Man on Campus
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
27
User score
Generally Favorable
6.1
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
27
7% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
36% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
57% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
70
Although it falls far short of fulfilling its full potential as a dark comedy of desperation, Dead Man on Campus is a modestly amusing trifle that merits a passing grade as lightweight entertainment.
60
A predictably dumb movie made for very young audiences, playing to youth's love of excess and loaded with masturbation jokes.
50
This limp 1998 comedy tries hard to be both irreverent and ethical by suggesting that deceit motivated by self-interest is OK as long as no one gets hurt.
25
Dead Man on Campus, a supposed black comedy produced by MTV, is simply awful.
20
The fault lies mostly with the writers, who consistently come up short on wit and imagination enough to finish, let alone flesh out or polish, a joke.
10
Under Alan Cohn's straight-on direction, the film, written by various hands, huffs and puffs mightily just to keep a strenuously labored plot going.
0
The product of a first-time director and writers who have no sense of scene structure or shape, or even a discernible sense of humour.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.1
45% Positive
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
40% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
15% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
Feb 17, 2019
5
One of those, 'it's so bad it's good' type films. I really enjoy how ridiculously 90s this film is including Mark-Paul Goseelaar, Alyson Hannigan and even Jason Segel who I didn't even realize was on the scene at that time.
Production Company:
- Paramount Pictures
- MTV Productions
- Pacific Western
- MTV Films
Release Date:Aug 21, 1998
Duration:1 h 36 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Roommate Wanted...For a Limited Time Only
Awards
Teen Choice Awards
• 6 Nominations
BMI Film & TV Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Golden Trailer Awards
• 1 Nomination
