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Tapeheads (1988)
Director: Bill Fishman
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Cusack and Robbins are a couple of bored security guards who get their kicks by playing around with the closed circuit television. This leads them first to unemployment, then to a new career as music promo auteurs. It's all good fun: likeable performances, unpretentious, larky direction, and a haphazard story encompassing political shenanigans, an ageing hip soul duo called The Swanky Modes (Walker and Moore), deep fried chicken, and Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys as an FBI agent! If Repo Man bounced politics off a B movie sensibility, this does the same with MTV.Author: TCh
Cast & crew
Director: Bill Fishman
Producer: Peter McCarthy
Cast: John Cusack, Tim Robbins, Katy Boyer, Mary Crosby, Clu Gulager, Doug McClure, Connie Stevens, Lyle Alzado, Jessica Walter, Susan Tyrell, Junior Walker, Sam Moore full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 97 mins
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