Heartbeeps (1981) on Netflix
Val, a valet robot for lumber commodities, and Aqua, a hostess robot, wait at a factory for repairs. They fall in love and leave in a stolen company van.
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At a factory where they wait for repairs, two domestic robots meet. ValCom 17485, called Val, is a valet robot made for work with lumber commodities. AquaCom 89045, called Aqua, is a robot hostess whose job is helping at poolside parties. Held at the plant for that service, the pair fall for each other and make off in one of the company's vans.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Heartbeeps (1981)
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- Universal executives, worried that Andy Kaufman had only a small film role behind him, arranged for him to star in Heartbeeps as a test of whether he could carry a movie. When it became a box office disaster, the planned film of his alter-ego Tony Clifton that he and Bob Zmuda had pitched was canceled.
- Sigourney Weaver was offered a role in Heartbeeps and was interested, because she wanted to work with Andy Kaufman, but her agent talked her out of taking it.
- Stan Winston's make-up work on Heartbeeps made him a nominee for the first ever Academy Award for Best Makeup in 1982, a prize he lost to Rick Baker for An American Werewolf in London.
- A Screen Actors Guild strike shut down filming on Heartbeeps in July 1980, along with numerous other movies and television shows; the strike ended at the beginning of October 1980, and filming had started in June.
