Dead Man on Campus (1998) on Netflix
Josh's scholarship needs a B+ average, but partying with roommate Cooper has left him failing. Cooper's funding is at risk, and they learn the school grants straight As when a roommate dies.
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Plot summary
Josh arrives at college on a scholarship and is assigned Cooper as a roommate. Cooper skips class, parties instead of studying and fails everything, while his father keeps paying the tuition. Josh falls in with Cooper's habits and fails all of his midterms, which endangers the B+ average his scholarship requires; Cooper's father, seeing no effort to pass, threatens to cut off his funding too. Reading the college charter, the two find an obscure rule: roommates of a student who commits suicide receive perfect marks for the year. With their grades beyond repair, they set out to find a student who might fit the arrangement.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Dead Man on Campus (1998)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Dead Man on Campus was the first role Alyson Hannigan took after finishing the first season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which was still airing on The WB while this film was being shot.
- The soundtrack was one of only three film albums DreamWorks Records ever released unconnected to its own studio, all three for Paramount comedies; Paramount's parent Viacom later bought the DreamWorks Pictures film library for $1.6 billion in 2006, while DreamWorks Records itself had already been sold to Universal Music for $100 million in 2003.
