A New Jersey trucker creates a hit TV show with help from his girlfriend in the ratings business.
Acting
DeVito commits to trucker sleaze with zero shame.
Direction
DeVito directs himself scamming TV—meta before meta was cool.
Director
Danny DeVito
Danny DeVito
Vic De Salvo
Rhea Perlman
Francine Kester
Gerrit Graham
Parker Braithwaite
Bernadette Birkett
Mrs. Sweeney
Barry Corbin
Colonel
Louis Giambalvo
Goody DeSalvo
Ronny Graham
Cap'n Andy
Huntz Hall
Benny Bentson
Basil Hoffman
Frank Friedlander
Kevin McCarthy
Wes Vandergelder
John Megna
Al
Michael Richards
Sal
Ron Rifkin
TV Director
Joe Santos
Tony
Vincent Schiavelli
Skip Imperali
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
DeVito and Perlman were actually married when they made this, their first on-screen pairing as romantic leads.
This satirizes the very ratings system that kept it from being a real theatrical release—NBC buried it as a TV movie.
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