Practical Effects
The robot suits look like walking trash cans with feelings.
Acting
Bernadette Peters somehow commits to this nonsense with genuine tenderness.
Director
Allan Arkush
Andy Kaufman
Val
Bernadette Peters
Aqua
Randy Quaid
Charlie
Kenneth McMillan
Max
Christopher Guest
Calvin
Melanie Mayron
Susan
Richard B. Shull
Factory Boss
Dick Miller
Factory Watchman
Kathleen Freeman
Helicopter Pilot
Mary Woronov
Party House Owner
Paul Bartel
Party Guest
Wally Ann Wharton
Party Guest
Barry Diamond
Firing Range Technician / Catskil
Jeffrey Kramer
Party Butler Robot
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Andy Kaufman allegedly hated this film so much he tried to buy and destroy every print. He failed.
This bombed so spectacularly it became a punchline in Kaufman's obituaries—Man on the Moon literally uses it as evidence of his career suicide.
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