The Curve

The Curve is a 1998 thriller starring Matthew Lillard, Keri Russell and Michael Vartan. It is also known as Dead Man's Curve, but was changed to The Curve to avoid confusion with the film Dead Man on Campus, a comedy with a similar Pass by catastrophe premise about two college roommates who try to get another to commit suicide. In the UK and Australia it was released as Dead Man's Curve. The story follows Tim, Chris and Rand who are campus roommates. After hearing of a school policy, which says that anyone whose roommate commits suicide gets an automatic 4.0 GPA (see: Pass by catastrophe), Tim and Chris plot to kill Rand and make it look like suicide. After the suicide, Rand's girlfriend Natalie (the roommate of Chris' girlfriend Emma) is distraught and commits suicide as well. The story takes several plot twists as each persons motives come to light and the truth is revealed. The film was screened at the Sundance Film Festival but then went directly to video. Writer/Director Dan...