Tapeheads is a 1988 comedy film directed by Bill Fishman. The film features John Cusack, Tim Robbins, Sam Moore, and Junior Walker. There are also a number of cameos including "Weird Al" Yankovic, Don Cornelius, Zander Schloss, Martha Quinn, Ted Nugent, Jello Biafra, Connie Stevens, Courtney Love, and the bands Fishbone and The Lords of the New Church. A song by Devo is performed, but other actors portray them (as the fictional band "Cube Squared...
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Tapeheads is a 1988 comedy film directed by Bill Fishman. The film features John Cusack, Tim Robbins, Sam Moore, and Junior Walker. There are also a number of cameos including "Weird Al" Yankovic, Don Cornelius, Zander Schloss, Martha Quinn, Ted Nugent, Jello Biafra, Connie Stevens, Courtney Love, and the bands Fishbone and The Lords of the New Church. A song by Devo is performed, but other actors portray them (as the fictional band "Cube Squared"). The movie was produced by Michael Nesmith who has a brief cameo role in the film as a bottled water delivery worker.
The story follows the strange adventures of the fast-talking Ivan Alexeev (John Cusack) and tech-whiz Josh Tager (Tim Robbins), disgruntled Los Angeles Generation Xers, who, after losing their menial jobs as corporate security guards, start their own video production company called "Video Aces", as part of their quest to make a music video for their childhood heroes, the '70s soul duo - The Swanky Modes (Sam Moore and Junior...
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