Guide Note
American film Dead Man On Campus, starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Tom Everett Scott, is about two failing college students seeking a suicidal roommate, in hopes that the roommate's suicide will give both automatic straight As for the semester due to a college-rules loophole.
Fast Facts
- Director: Alan Cohn
- Release date: August 21, 1998
- Rated R
- Also starred: Poppy Montgomery, Linda Cardellini, Jason Segel and Alyson Hannigan
- Shot at: University of the Pacific, Stockton, California.
Don't I Know You?
Actors Jason Segel and Alyson Hannigan, who appear as fellow college students in this film, play a couple who met during college in TV series How I Met Your Mother. Segel got his start in Freaks and Geeks, in which he played the drumer boyfriend of Linda Cardellini, who also features in Dead Man on Campus.
