Roadie

Roadie.
1980 Alive Enterprises and United Artists; distributed to DVD by MGM.
Starring: Meat Loaf, Kaki Hunter, Art Carney, Gailard Sartain, Rhonda Bates, Joe Spano, Don Cornelius, Hamilton Camp
Also appearing: Alice Cooper, Blondie, Asleep at the Wheel, Roy Orbison, Hank Williams Jr., etc.
Director: Alan Rudolph
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Meat Loaf stars as a good ol' boy from rural Texas named Travis Redfish, who lives with his disabled father Corpus (Carney) while working as a beer truck driver. During a run with his pal B.B. (Sartain), they stop to fix a stalled tour bus, and Travis is smitten by a groupie along for the ride named Lola (Hunter), who is looking to bed Alice Cooper. Travis ends up joining Lola on the road, traveling the country as an exceptional roadie with a knack for restoring electronic equipment. He meets Roy Orbison, Hank Williams Jr., Asleep at the Wheel, and Blondie during his misadventures, all the while trying to prove his love for Lola.

Eventually, Lola does get to meet her idol Alice Cooper, but mainly at the insistance of Travis, who is so fed up with the groupie stringing him along that he literally drags Lola to New York City where Cooper is playing, and storms into the arena during the sound check. Cooper asks them both to dinner, but Lola insists he appear in full stage costume, complete with the boa constrictor. In exchange for a bus ticket back home, Travis fixes Cooper's sound system before the big show.

Roadie has its moments, but it was an underwhelming film as a whole. Not recommended.