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Release Date:
21 October 1988 (USA) moreTagline:
"Let's get into trouble, baby!" morePlot:
A couple of creative losers accidently become big shots in the video music industry. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
Dryly irreverent...ridiculous...and sometimes very funny moreUS TV Schedule:
| Tue. July 21 | 1:00 PM | TMC |
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| John Cusack | ... | Ivan Alexeev | |
| Tim Robbins | ... | Josh Tager | |
| Mary Crosby | ... | Samantha Gregory | |
| Clu Gulager | ... | Norman Mart | |
| Katy Boyer | ... | Belinda Mart | |
| Jessica Walter | ... | Kay Mart | |
| Sam Moore | ... | Billy Diamond | |
| Junior Walker | ... | Lester Diamond | |
| Susan Tyrrell | ... | Nikki Morton | |
| Doug McClure | ... | Sid Tager | |
| Connie Stevens | ... | June Tager | |
| King Cotton | ... | Roscoe | |
| Don Cornelius | ... | Mo Fuzz | |
| Ebbe Roe Smith | ... | Mr. G. | |
| Keith Joe Dick | ... | Mr. B. |
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93 minCountry:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Ultra StereoFilming Locations:
Los Angeles, California, USAFun Stuff
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The song "Repave Amerika" appears on the soundtrack, written by Tim Robbins and performed by Bob Roberts. This was four years before Bob Roberts (1992), written and directed by Robbins. moreQuotes:
Video Vixen #1: [after making the Blender Children's video, the video vixens swarm around Josh and Ivan] Are you guys famous?Video Vixen #2: How do I look?
Video Vixen #3: Sign my butt!
Video Vixen #1: Teach me to read!
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Tender Love Attack moreFAQ
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"Tapeheads", a scrappy, intermittently funny spoof of the music video business, might have been the perfect comedic short, and stars John Cusack and Tim Robbins are effortlessly in the swing of the nonsensical chaos involved. They play two semi-savvy security guards in Los Angeles who start their own company, Video Aces, making hilarious videos for groups, parties, and one deathbed star. It's too bad the filmmakers had to invent a dim side-plot to pad the running time (shenanigans involving a crooked politician and his henchmen which doesn't do much except take away from the movie's primary strength, sending-up the music culture of the late-'80's). Still, Cusack and Robbins create a couple of originals here: nerdy but loose, street-smart without being hipsters or posers, these guys are on the same nutty wavelength, and they never put each other down. They are the real thing in buddy-comedies. *1/2 from ****