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While at the repair factory, Val (Andy Kaufman), a robot valet, meets Aqua (Bernadette Peters), a fellow automaton who functions as a party hostess. Remarkably, the two robots discover that they ...
- Allan Arkush
- Comedy
- Andy Kaufman
Heartbeeps Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Matt Brunson Film Frenzy. Heartbeeps may contain Oscar-nominated makeup designs by Stan Winston but otherwise...
Dec 18, 1981 · Heartbeeps: Directed by Allan Arkush. With Andy Kaufman, Bernadette Peters, Randy Quaid, Kenneth McMillan. Two household robots run away and try to start a family.
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- Comedy, Sci-Fi
- Allan Arkush
- 1981-12-18
Heartbeeps is a 1981 American romantic-comedy and science fiction film about two robots who fall in love and decide to strike out on their own.
HEARTBEEPS is a movie about a pair of malfunctioning companion androids returned to the factory for repairs. A simple conversation about mutual shared functions progresses to a trip to the woods with a 'Catskill' comedy unit (that has a vocal patterned after Rodney Dangerfield).
May 5, 2020 · In terms of both box office and critical response, Heartbeeps could not be taken as evidence to the positive. The New York Times called it “unbearable,” and even Kaufman himself called it “a terrible movie. I’m embarrassed that I was in it,” he told David Letterman in 1982.
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Feb 18, 2020 · Long before Cats welcomed audiences into the uncanny valley and Sonic’s teeth gave Internet kids something to raise arms over, Heartbeeps slathered Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters in off-putting makeup and plastic-y prosthetics for this incredibly odd 1981 comedy about runaway robots.
