Airheads
The amps are on but nobody's home.
The Lone Rangers have heavy-metal dreams and a single demo tape they can't get anyone to play.The solution: Hijack an FM rock radio station and hold the deejays hostage until they agree to broadcast the band's tape.
- Director
- Michael Lehmann
- Signature
- Tension · Craft · Humour
- Worldwide
- $6M
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The Lone Rangers have heavy-metal dreams and a single demo tape they can't get anyone to play. The solution: Hijack an FM rock radio station and hold the deejays hostage until they agree to broadcast the band's tape.
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Box Office & Release
Airheads returned 0.4× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $15M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $6M
- Release date
- Aug 5, 1994
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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