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Article: POINTLESS `COMEDY' `DEAD MAN' FALLS FLAT.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)

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August 24, 1998
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Byline: Paula Nechak Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Dead Man on Campus

Grade: D

Josh, Tom Everett Scott; Cooper, Mark-Paul Gosselaar. Directed by Alan Cohn. Written by Michael Traeger. A Paramount Pictures release. Rated R: sexual content, profanity. Opened Friday at area theaters.

Who's it for? Teens.

Poor Tom Everett Scott. After an impressive debut in the Tom Hanks movie That Thing You Do, the actor has slowly seen his career take a downward spiral. First it was An American Werewolf in Paris, now this odious and tasteless trifle.

Even the opening credits are morose and crass in Dead Man on Campus, with various methods ...

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