Dead Man On Campus

(Paramount)

This moribund stinker stars Tom Everett Scott as a naive go-getting freshman on scholarship whose drive falls prey to the bongs and bad attitude of rich-kid party guy Cooper (Mark-Paul Gosselaar). Facing failure and expulsion, the pair come up with a desperate ploy, as do the filmmakers: an old college statute states that if a resident of a dorm commits suicide, everyone living there gets A's. In a series of stunts that make Weekend at Bernie's seem the apotheosis of wit, they seek a suicidal roommate and plot to drive him to self-destruction. And indeed, self-destruction must have been in the minds of everyone connected with this film.