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Heartbeeps

United States

1981

79 Min
Color
2.35:1
English
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DIR Allan Arkush

EXEC Douglas Green

PROD Michael Phillips

SCR John Hill

DP Charles Rosher Jr.

CAST Andy Kaufman, Bernadette Peters, Randy Quaid, Melanie Mayron, Kenneth McMillan

ED Tina Hirsch

MUSIC John Williams

Synopsis

Val and Aqua are two household servant robots who start feeling emotions for each other. After falling in love, they decide to escape from their servitude and attempt to start a family of their own. —IMDb

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Allan Arkush

Allan Arkush (born April 30, 1948 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American cult film and television director and frequent collaborator of Joe Dante.
Arkush grew up in Fort Lee, New Jersey. He got his start in the industry working in the trailer department for Roger Corman. He later went on to direct the Corman produced films Hollywood Boulevard, Deathsport, and Rock ‘n’ Roll High School. Arkush also contributes commentary to the web series Trailers From Hell. 

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Christopher Scott Zeidel

5Jan12

Heartbeeps was said to be so awful, that Andy Kaufman apologized for it. It is of course not great, but it is nowhere near as bad as I imagined it to be. It is an odd little film, but I liked it simplicity and it did have, well, a heart.

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