Tapeheads (1988)
#18 in my 2007 movie challenge was Tapeheads. My recent viewing of Repo Man reminded me that I’d never seen this 80’s oddity, even though it starred two favorites of mine, John Cusack and Tim Robbins. I enjoyed this tale of a team of video nerds more than I did Repo Man. Both movies share a similar whacked-out humor, perhaps because both were produced by Michael Nesmith, the smart Monkee and heir to the Liquid Paper fortune. I was amused to see that Robbins’s character could very well be an early prototype of Dwight Schrute from The Office, and some of the movie’s music was done by Fishbone, explaining the provenance of the T-shirt that Robbins sports in Bull Durham.