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U
Unrated
Airheads
Comedy, Crime, Music
The Lone Rangers have heavy-metal dreams and a single demo tape they can't get anyone to play. The solution: Hijack an FM rock radio station and hold the deejays hostage until they agree to broadcast the band's tape.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy scruffy music comedies about underdogs, youthful desperation, and chaotic attempts to force the culture industry to listen.
- Tone
- playful, darkly comic, lighthearted
- Payoff
- amusement, catharsis
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- artistic ambition, recognition, friendship, rebellion, media gatekeeping
- Setting
- 1990s, urban radio station and music-industry spaces