Roadie Movie Review
Roadie Review
"Roadie" Overview
Rating: PG
1980
Cast and Crew
Director : Alan RudolphProducer : Carolyn Pfeiffer
Screenwiter : Big Boy Medlin,Michael Ventura
Starring : Meat Loaf,Kaki Hunter,Art Carney,Gailard Sartain,Rhonda Bates,Joe Spano,Richard Marion,Sonny Carl Davis,Hamilton Camp,Don Cornelius,Alice Cooper,Alvin Crow,Rick Crow,Smoothie,Deborah Harry,Roy Orbison,Hank Williams Jr.
This strange collaboration of Zalman King, Alan Rudolph, and Meat Loaf stands as one of cinema's big, cult oddities -- giving us the Loaf as a Texas beer trucker (hauling Shiner, by the way) who becomes a roadie in order to impress a groupie he encounters. Never mind that she's 16 years old. Te film approximates a road trip en route to an Alice Cooper show, but the plot is safely skippable. If only there were more musical bits (check the cast list!) -- and the lead actors didn't jabber constantly over them.
Reviewer: Christopher Null
