Heart squeak

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Movie
German title Heart squeak
Original title Heartbeeps
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1981
length 75 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Allan Arkush
script John Hill
production Michael Phillips
music John Williams
camera Charles Rosher Jr.
cut Tina Hirsch
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Heart Squeak (Original title: Heartbeeps ) is a sci-fi - Romance from 1981, fall two robots in which. It was directed by Allan Arkush ; Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters took over the roles of the two robots . It was Kaufman's last film role. The video premiere took place in Germany in 1987.

Stan Winston's masking work for the film earned him an Oscar nomination for best makeup . The film cost ten million US dollars and only grossed 2.15 million US dollars.

action

Val Com 17485, a robot specializing in wooden furniture, meets Aqua Com 89045, a robot hostess whose main job is to assist. While waiting in a factory to be repaired, they fall in love and decide to escape in a van. They try to find a place to stay where they have access to electrical energy. They assemble a little robot, Phil, which they put together from individual parts and adopt him as a child.

Meanwhile, a defective police robot, the Crimebuster, sets out to search for the fugitives. After the robots are returned to the factory, they will be repaired and their memories cleared. However, because they continue to malfunction, they are disposed of. They are eventually found by humans and put back together again.

From now on they live happily in the junkyard and create a robot daughter for themselves. The film ends with the Crimebuster, still suffering from a malfunction, again looking for the fugitives.

production

Sigourney Weaver was offered a role in the film. She was interested in working with Andy Kaufman, but her agent convinced her to drop the project.

Filming, which had only started in June, was suspended in July 1980 because of the strike by the Screen Actors Guild . The strike ended in early October 1980. The film was supposed to reach a young audience, but failed to achieve that goal. Universal Pictures had given Kaufman unlimited freedom to make the film after a test group of children liked the robots, apparently because of their similarities to R2-D2 and C-3PO .

Bob Zmuda wrote in his book Andy Kaufman: Revealed that Kaufman and Zmuda had adapted the script of Kaufman's The Tony Clifton Story , a film about his alter ego Tony Clifton. Those in charge at Universal were concerned that Kaufman had only played a small role so far and initially gave him the chance to play as a test in squeaking hearts to see if he could carry a movie. Since the film was disastrous at the box office, plans for a sequel were dropped.

John Hill later adapted the script for a novel of the same name, published by Jove Publications in December 1981.

reception

The reviews of the film were mostly negative. At Rotten Tomatoes , the film is given a score of 0%.

Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times that the film was unsustainable and had an overly reserved story. Gary Arnold criticized The Washington Post : "It is unlikely that Kaufman's or Peter's career will be seriously damaged with a small fiasco that only a handful of people will ever see."

Kaufman himself found the film so bad that he apologized on the show Late Night with David Letterman and announced as a joke that he would compensate anyone who paid for the film.

Awards

Award category receiver Result
Saturn Award
Best science fiction film Douglas Green Nominated
Best make-up Stan Winston Nominated
Academy Awards Best make-up Stan Winston Nominated
Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
Worst picture Michael Phillips Nominated
Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy Michael Phillips Nominated
Worst screenplay John Hill Nominated
Worst Actor Andy Kaufman Nominated
Worst on-screen couple Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters Nominated
Most Annoying Fake Accent - Male Andy Kaufman Nominated

Web links

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Gholson: Sci-Fi Movie Poster of the Day: Heartbeeps . Aol. April 16, 2010. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 1, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / news.moviefone.com
  2. ↑ Box office / Business for Heartbeeps . IMDb . Retrieved March 30, 2013.
  3. ↑ http://www.ew.com/ew/static/longform/ghostbusters/desktop "I'd been offered an Andy Kaufman project about two robots that fall in love, and I was so excited to work with him. But my agent convinced me that the script just wasn't good enough, so I had sort of tearfully let that go. "
  4. ↑ "Behind the Camera on" Heartbeeps "", American Cinematographer (February 1982, Issue 63, No. 2)
  5. ↑ Heartbeeps Trivia . IMDb . Retrieved March 30, 2013.
  6. ↑ Rich Drees: Script Review: THE TONY CLIFTON STORY . Filmbuffonline.com. February 20, 2007. Archived from the original on January 2, 2016. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 30, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmbuffonline.com
  7. ↑ Tomatometer for Heartbeeps . Rotten tomatoes . Retrieved March 30, 2013.
  8. ↑ Vincent Canby: Robots In Love In 'Heartbeeps' . New York Times . December 19, 1981. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
  9. ^ Review by Gary Arnold. In: The Washington Post . December 23, 1981: "It's unlikely that Kaufman or Peters face serious career setbacks from a minor fiasco only a handful of people will ever see."
  10. ↑ THE STINKERS BALLOT EXPANSION PROJECT 1981 . In: Stinkers Bad Movie Awards . Archived from the original on May 4, 2007. Retrieved March 30, 2013.