Dead Man on Campus is a 1998 comedy film 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 . Two friends attempt to find a depressed roommate in order to push him over the edge and receive A's. To boost ticket sales in the theater, the film's US release was timed with the start of the new college school year in late August 1998. It is the first film by MTV Films to have an R rating . The film was shot at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. The Curve, also known as Dead Man's... Curve, which came out in the same year, uses a similar plotline. The movie has since gone out of print. Josh gets in to college on a scholarship, and Cooper is assigned as his roommate. Cooper does little work and instead spends all the time partying and consistently fails his course, but his father continues to fund him through college.
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| Release date: | August 21, 1998 |
| Directed by: | Alan Cohn |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 96 Minutes |
| Producer: | Gale Anne Hurd |
| Music by: | Mark Mothersbaugh |
| Screenplay by: | Adam Larson Broder, Mike White, Anthony Abrams |
| Estimated budget: | $14,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |