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Few films from the early 1990s still spark the kind of love-hate debate that Drop Dead Fred does. A box-office disappointment that critics savaged (just 13% on Rotten Tomatoes) yet audiences quietly kept renting on VHS, it became a cult phenomenon, and this guide separates fact from fantasy: what the film is really about, whether…