Better Off Dead... Filming Locations

Better Off Dead... filming locations

Where was Better Off Dead... filmed? Better Off Dead... was filmed in 24 locations across United States in the following places:

Better Off Dead... Filming Locations

Alta is a Utah town within the Wasatch Mountain Range, near Salt Lake City. It’s known for ski resorts with powder snow, including Alta Ski Area and nearby Snowbird. In the summer, wildflowers line trails in the Albion Basin, home to Cecret Lake, streams, moose and deer. The craggy ridges of American Fork Twin Peaks and Pfeifferhorn lie southwest. To the north, Big Cottonwood Canyon offers lakes and scenic trails.

Snowbird is an unincorporated community in Little Cottonwood Canyon in the Wasatch Range of the Rocky Mountains near Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It is most famous for Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort, an alpine skiing and snowboarding area, which opened in December 1971.

Holladay is a city in central Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area and abuts the Wasatch National Forest.

La Crescenta-Montrose is an unincorporated area in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The community is bordered by Glendale to the south and west, La Cañada Flintridge to the east, and Angeles National Forest to the north.

Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It borders Colorado to its east, Wyoming to its northeast, Idaho to its north, Arizona to its south, and Nevada to its west. Utah also touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast.

Burbank is a city in the southeastern end of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Located 12 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, Burbank has a population of 107,337. The city was named after David Burbank, who established a sheep ranch there in 1867.

Los Angeles is a sprawling Southern California city and the center of the nation’s film and television industry. Near its iconic Hollywood sign, studios such as Paramount Pictures, Universal and Warner Brothers offer behind-the-scenes tours. On Hollywood Boulevard, TCL Chinese Theatre displays celebrities’ hand- and footprints, the Walk of Fame honors thousands of luminaries and vendors sell maps to stars’ homes.

Sierra Madre is a city in Los Angeles County, California, with a population of 11,268 at the time of the 2020 U.S. Census. The city is in the foothills of the San Gabriel Valley below the southern edge of the Angeles National Forest. Pasadena and Altadena are to its west, with Arcadia to its south and east.

Better Off Dead... (1985)
Alternate title: Better Off Dead
Runtime: 97 minutes
Rating: 7.1
Release year: 1985
IMDB: tt0088794
Plot summary

After his girlfriend Beth Truss ditches him for boorish ski jock Roy Stalin, sad sack high school student Lane Meyer decides that suicide is the only answer. But his inept attempts bring him nothing but agony and embarrassment.

Genres
Comedy
Romance
Cast
John Cusack
David Ogden Stiers
Kim Darby
Demian Slade
Directors
Savage Steve Holland
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Better Off Dead... filming locations