Taglines: A comedy adventure on the wrong side of the screen.
Stay Tuned movie storyline. The Knables are having marriage problems: Roy is a lousy plumbing supplies salesman by day and couch potato by night, and his wife, Helen, is a successful senior product manager for a vitamin company. Roy watches too much TV every night and Helen just cannot stand it. Then one night, Helen offers Roy a night to save their relationship: a romantic getaway without phones, their children, and especially no TV. Unfortunately, when Roy’s hooked on the big screen, there’s no going back.
This frustrates and angers her and Helen decides to smash the family console with one of Roy’s trophies as a wake-up call to reality. A heartbroken-to-disoriented Roy then hears the doorbell and finds out that it’s a mysterious salesman named Spike who offers him the “ultimate getaway” from all the hate, frustration, and failures: a new remote controller and a new state-of-the-art satellite TV. Roy accepts the new TV by signing a free trial contract not knowing that he just sold his soul to the devil himself.
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.
Stay Tuned (1992)
Directed by: Peter Hyams
Starring: John Ritter, Pam Dawber, Jeffrey Jones, David Tom, Heather McComb, Bob Dishy, Joyce Gordon, Eugene Levy, Susan Blommaert, Maurice Verkaar
Screenplay by: Jim Jennewain, Tom S. Parker
Production Design by: Philip Harrison
Cinematography by: Peter Hyams
Film Editing by: Peter E. Berger
Costume Design by: Joe I. Tompkins
Set Decoration by: Daniel R. Bradette, Annmarie Corbett, Lin MacDonald, Rose Marie McSherry
Art Direction by: Richard Hudolin, David Willson
Music by: Bruce Broughton
MPAA Rating: PG for some off-color humor and language.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: August 14, 1992
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