Roadie (1980)
- Starring:
- Meat Loaf, Kaki Hunter, (more)
- Director(s):
- Alan Rudolph
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG
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Roadie is a showbiz saga about the working slobs who make live pop-music performances happen. Texas good ol' boy Travis W. Redfish (pop singer Meat Loaf) drives a Shiner beer truck on his appointed rounds, but he becomes smitten with rock groupie Lola Bouillabase (Kaki Hunter), a "roadie" whose sole ambition in life is to bed her idol, Alice Cooper (playing himself). Travis' grizzled pappy, Corpus C. Redfish (Art Carney), feels disgusted by his son's lifestyle. After hearing that Cooper and his band are on tour, Lola sets out to catch up to them and offer her services, with Travis in pursuit. Along the way, they meet a number of pop-music stars -- Blondie, Asleep at the Wheel, Hank Williams Jr., Roy Orbison, and Ramblin' Jack Elliott -- who are all working on their own tours. Travis signs on, himself, as a groupie for a rock band, and is quickly dubbed "greatest roadie of all time," but he soon realizes that he must return to Texas for the wedding of his sister and his best friend. ~ Tom Wiener, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 95 mins
Complete Cast:
- Meat Loaf - Travis W. Redfish
- Art Carney - Corpus C. Redfish
- Don Cornelius - Mohammed Johnson
- Joe Spano - Ace
- Sonny Davis - Bird
- Deborah Harry - Herself
- Clem Burke - Himself
- Nigel Harrison - Himself
- Roy Orbison - Himself
- Merle Kilgore - Himself
- Ray Benson - Himself
- Alvin Crow - Himself
- Alan Lee Graf
- Larry Lindsey
- Kaki Hunter - Lola Bouilliabase
- Gailard Sartain - B.B. Muldoon
- Rhonda Bates - Alice Poo
- Richard Marion - George
- Alice Cooper - Himself
- Chris Stein - Himself
- Jimmy Destri - Himself
- Frank Infante - Himself
- Hank Williams, Jr. - Himself
- Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Himself
- Sheryl Cooper - Herself
- Blondie
- Larry Marshall
- Hamilton Camp
- Director(s):
- Alan Rudolph
- Writer(s):
- Bruce Robinson, Zalman King, James Big Boy Medlin
- Producer(s):
- Zalman King, Carolyn Pfeiffer, Alan King
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG(Questionable for Children)
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