Roadie

Jun 13, 1980

1h 46m

★ 5.8

Bands make it Rock...Roadies make it Roll!

Overview

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 traveling rock-and-roll show.

Genres

Comedy

Music

Production Companies

United Artists

Roadie Trailers

Cast

Travis W. Redfish

Meat Loaf

Lola Bouilliabase

Kaki Hunter

Corpus C. Redfish

Art Carney

B.B. Muldoon

Gailard Sartain

Alice Poo Redfish

Rhonda Bates

Mohammed Johnson

Don Cornelius

Bird

Sonny Carl Davis

Ace

Joe Spano

Self

Alice Cooper

Self

Roy Orbison

Self

Hank Williams, Jr.

Self

Debbie Harry

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0.0

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0.0

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7.6

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