Dead Man on Campus is a 1998 comedy starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Tom Everett Scott. It centers on the urban legend that a student gets straight A's if his or her roommate commits suicide (see: Pass by catastrophe). Two friends attempt to find a depressed roommate in order to push him over the edge and receive A's. To boost ticket sales for this film in the theater, its US release was timed with the start of the new college school year in late...
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Dead Man on Campus is a 1998 comedy starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Tom Everett Scott. It centers on the urban legend that a student gets straight A's if his or her roommate commits suicide (see: Pass by catastrophe). Two friends attempt to find a depressed roommate in order to push him over the edge and receive A's. To boost ticket sales for this film in the theater, its US release was timed with the start of the new college school year in late August 1998. The Curve, also known as Dead Man's Curve, which came out in the same year, uses a similar plotline.
The movie was shot at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.
Two university students, Cooper (whose father threatened to stop paying his tuition because of his failing grades and is forcing him to go to work in his toilet cleaning industry), and Josh (who is in danger of losing his scholarship) find out about an obscure academic rule that states that if a student's roommate commits suicide then the roommates get...
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