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''Tapeheads'' is a 1988 comedy directed by Creator/BillFishman.

Two fired security guards (Creator/JohnCusack and Creator/TimRobbins) accidentally become big shots in the music industry after forming their own production company.

The movie also stars Creator/MaryCrosby, Creator/CluGulager, Creator/DougMcClure, Creator/KatyBoyer, Creator/JessicaWalter, Creator/LeeArenberg, and Creator/SamMoore.

It was released on October 21, 1988.
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!!Tropes for the film:
* AccidentalArt: Ivan and Josh run an unsuccessful music video company. When a DeathMetal band that they taped [[DeathFromAbove is crushed by a piece of falling satellite]], they're asked for a copy of the unpremiered video. Being low on funds, they put it on a video that previously held a videotaped funeral, accidentally copying only the audio. Fortunately, the song just happened to fit the funeral visuals as well, and it is lauded as a masterful work of art, even winning an award.
* TheCameo: The movie is rife with musician cameos with Music/WeirdAlYankovic as himself, Music/TedNugent as an unnamed rock star, the Goth Rock supergroup The Lords of the New Church lead by Stiv Bators portraying the metal band ''The Blender Children'', and Music/DeadKennedys' Music/JelloBiafra as an FBI agent.
* CelebrityParadox: Music/JelloBiafra's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyKzdvZU3pg cameo]] as an FBI agent arresting the main characters on obscenity charges is a CastingGag referencing a famous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Kennedys#Frankenchrist_and_obscenity_trial_.281985.E2.80.931986.29 obscenity trial]] involving the artwork to his band Music/DeadKennedys' album ''Music/{{Frankenchrist}}''. Then he gets the line "Remember what we did to Jello Biafra?".
* CreativeClosingCredits: The entire end credits sequence is a CallBack to the first video the main characters did (a commercial for Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles) with Roscoe rapping about what happened to the boys, and how his chain has grown, among other things.
* JusticeByOtherLegalMeans: Ivan and Josh get revenge on a SleazyPolitician by broadcasting a HomePornMovie of him on live TV, which gets them arrested by the FBI. They're acquitted of the crime, but go to jail anyway for outstanding traffic warrants.
* PunnyName: Senator Norman Mart's wife is named Kay... making her [[UsefulNotes/KMart Kay Mart]].
* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: The duo's office space is protected by a video of a security guard firing at anyone who trips the system, as shown when [[SleazyPolitician Norman Mart's]] men bust in, and they fire back, not realizing it's only a video. The video guard even scoffs at them when they run out of bullets, and puts down his gun and salutes just as Ivan and Josh (who had been out) walk in. A couple scenes later, [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment a limbo band shows up]], and the guard on tape is seen dancing along to the music.
* VanityLicensePlate: Ivan has "MEFURST" -- the joke being that he wanted "MEFIRST" but it wasn't available.
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