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Dead Man's Curve (1998) on Netflix

R19981h 31mDramaMysteryRomanceThriller

Chris and Tim are college roommates aiming at Harvard Business School. They share the room with Rand. A campus legend promises an automatic 4.0 to any student whose roommate commits suicide.

  • Netflix1.7/5
  • IMDb5.8/105,708 votes
  • Rotten Tomatoes11%

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Plot summary

Chris and Tim are college students with their sights set on Harvard Business School, and they share a room with Rand. Chris is going out with Emma, and Emma's roommate Natalie is Rand's girlfriend. Rand often treats his girlfriend Natalie badly. An urban legend holds that a student whose roommate commits suicide receives a 4.0 for the semester, and the two roommates plot to kill Rand and make his death look like a suicide.

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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Dead Man's Curve (1998)

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  • Before filming began, writer-director Dan Rosen and score composer Shark made a mixtape of songs they were considering for the film and gave it to the principal actors to establish the film's tone; editor Glenn Garland then cut the first edit to those songs as temp music, and many ended up in the final film.
  • The film's plot is built on the real urban legend known as pass by catastrophe: a student is said to receive an automatic A grade if their roommate commits suicide.

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