Airheads
Comedy, Crime, Music
20th Century Fox  (1994) 92 mins PG-13

5.6 (15,030 votes)
The amps are on, but nobody's home.

In this hilarious spoof of the music industry, three intelligence challenged rock 'n' rollers (Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler) decide to take drastic action after their music continually falls on deaf ears. They break into a radio station, hoping to get their demo played on the air. But when the deejay (Joe Mantegna) and station manager (Michael McKean) refuse to play their song, the boys have no choice but to take the entire radio station hostage....

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Cast and Crew
Brendan Fraser  ......  Chester 'Chazz' Darvey
Steve Buscemi  ......  Rex
Adam Sandler  ......  Pip
Chris Farley  ......  Officer Wilson
Michael McKean  ......  Milo Jackson
Judd Nelson  ......  Jimmie Wing
Director  .....  Michael Lehmann
Producer  .....  Mark Burg; Robert Simonds
Writer  .....  Rich Wilkes
Notes
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: In the last scene when the band is trashing the stage and instruments, Chaz pretends to smash a PRS guitar, actually just slowing his swing to not hit the full stack guitar amp, only pretending to smash it. (more)

Trivia:
The building in which the main characters take hostages, is right across the street from the building used in Die Hard (1988). (Both buildings are seen in both movies.) (more)

Filming Locations:
Whisky a Go Go - 8901 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Quotes:
Chazz: Do you know what it's like to be on the bill and to play for 15 minutes and the only people there to see you are the other bands and their girlfriends? Don't talk to me about Rock 'n' Roll! I'm out there in the clubs and on the streets and I'm living it!
[shouts]
Chazz: I am Rock 'n' Roll!
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