

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
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.