1994’s “Airheads” stars Adam Sandler alongside Brendan Fraser and Steve Buscemi as three struggling musicians within the steel band The Lone Rangers. After many unsuccessful makes an attempt to get document producers to take heed to their music, the trio head to a radio station to attempt to get a track broadcast. When the DJ refuses to play the track, they maintain the place up (with what are later revealed to be plastic weapons) in a last-ditch effort to get their demo on the air.
Whereas Buscemi was already well-known when “Airheads” got here out, neither Sandler nor Fraser have been the heavyweights that they’d later grow to be. Fraser’s first field workplace success would not come till 1997 with “George of the Jungle” and Sandler was nonetheless a yr away from releasing “Billy Madison,” his breakthrough film. Whereas Sandler was an everyday fixture on “Saturday Night time Dwell,” he did not have sufficient star energy to draw massive numbers of moviegoers, and a wave of detrimental critiques doubtless did not assist “Airheads,” both.
What’s extra, “Airheads” launched when steel music had grow to be retro. Grunge was the in-vogue style on the time, making it more durable to market the movie to a large viewers. It grossed simply $5.7 million on the U.S. field workplace, and, with a reported funds of $11 million, grew to become generally known as a flop. “Airheads” went on to grow to be one thing of a cult hit in steel circles, however was in any other case misplaced to historical past.