Rating: PG
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 04/15/2003
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 95 Minutes
Flags: Questionable for Children
Distributor/Studio: MGM
Roadie is a showbiz saga about the working slobs who make live
pop-music performances happen. Texas good ol' boy
Travis W. Redfish (
pop singer
Meat Loaf) drives a Shiner beer truck on his appointed rounds, but he becomes smitten with
rock groupie
Lola Bouillabase (
Kaki Hunter), a "roadie" whose sole ambition in life is to bed her idol,
Alice Cooper (playing himself).
Travis' grizzled pappy,
Corpus C. Redfish (
Art Carney), feels disgusted by his son's lifestyle. After hearing that
Cooper and his band are on tour,
Lola sets out to catch up to them and offer her services, with
Travis in pursuit. Along the way, they meet a number of
pop-music stars --
Blondie,
Asleep at the Wheel,
Hank Williams Jr.,
Roy Orbison, and
Ramblin' Jack Elliott -- who are all working on their own tours.
Travis signs on, himself, as a groupie for a
rock band, and is quickly dubbed "greatest roadie of all time," but he soon realizes that he must return to Texas for the wedding of his sister and his best friend.
~ Tom Wiener, All Movie Guide
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