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Roadie is a 1980 American musical comedy film directed by Alan Rudolph about a truck driver who becomes a roadie for a traveling rock and roll show. The film stars Meat Loaf and marks his first starring role in a film.
Roger Ebert. June 18, 1980. 3 min read. It was in last summer’s terrible “ Americathon,” as I recall, that the rock singer Meat Loaf single-handedly demolished an auto. That sort of thing tends to get your attention. Now Mr. Loaf is back in a starring role, in “Roadie.”.
Roadie: Directed by Alan Rudolph. With Meat Loaf, Kaki Hunter, Art Carney, Gailard Sartain. A young Texas good ol' boy has a knack with electronic equipment, and that talent gets him a job as a roadie with a raucous travelling rock-and-roll show.
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- Comedy, Music
- Alan Rudolph
- 1980-06-13
Travis W Redfish (Meat Loaf) is a backward country boy from Texas who drives a beer truck, has never heard of Alice Cooper, talks about “John Travolto” and has a knack of being able to fix almost anything. He puts this talent to use in mending a stalled van belonging to a rock group.
Meatloaf plays a Texas lunk called Travis W Redfish whose ability to fix electronics with manure and bits of potatoes gets him caught up in a highly sanitised, if surreal, version of the rock...
Roadie (1980) A 1980 American Musical Comedy directed by Alan Rudolph that has a truck driver ( Meat Loaf) becoming a roadie and finding himself in a out-of-control band in the process. The movie also stars Kaki Hunter, Art Carney, Gailard Sartain, Don Cornelius, Rhonda Bates, Joe Spano, Allan Graf, and Merle Kilgore.
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Jun 14, 2013 · Meat Loaf played Travis W. Redfish, a truck driver who's lured into the rock-star lifestyle when he becomes a roadie for a traveling show.
