Stay Tuned (film)
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| Produced by | James G. Robinson |
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| Music by | Bruce Broughton |
| Cinematography | Peter Hyams |
| Edited by | Peter E. Berger |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $25 million |
| Box office | $10.7 million |
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| Soundtrack album by Various artists | |
| Released | August 29, 1992 |
| Recorded | 1992 |
| Genre | Hip hop |
| Length | 35:39 |
| Label | Morgan Creek |
| Producer | Hurby Luv Bug, Full Force, Black Sheep, Jason Hunter, Ced Gee, LaVaba Mallison |
Stay Tuned is a 1992 American adventure comedy film directed by Peter Hyams with animation by Chuck Jones and written by Jim Jennewain and Tom S. Parker based on a story by Jennewain, Parker, and Richard Siegel, and starring John Ritter, Pam Dawber, Jeffrey Jones, and Eugene Levy.
Tim Burton was originally chosen to be the director due to his art and style, but left to direct Batman Returns.
The film's primary protagonists are Roy Knable (John Ritter), a couch potato, struggling Seattle plumbing salesman, and former fencing athlete, and his neglected wife Helen (Pam Dawber), a vitamin product senior manager. After a fight (which involved Helen smashing the family television screen with one of Roy's fencing trophies as a wake-up call to reality), Mr. Spike (Jeffrey Jones) appears at the couples' door, offering him a new high-tech satellite dish system filled with 666 channels of programs one cannot view on the four big networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, and Fox). What Roy does not know is that Spike (later referred to as "Mephistopheles of the Cathode Ray") is an emissary from hell who wants to boost the influx of souls by arranging for TV junkies to be killed in the most gruesome and ironic situations imaginable. The 'candidates' are sucked into a hellish television world, called Hell Vision, and put through a gauntlet where they must survive a number of satirical versions of sitcoms and movies. If they can survive for 24 hours, they are free to go, but if they get killed, then their souls will become the property of Satan (the latter usually happens).
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