Heartbeeps (1981)

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Heartbeeps is a 1981 American science fiction romantic comedy film about two robots who fall in love and decide to strike out on their own. The film was directed by Allan Arkush, written by John Hill, and stars Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters as the robots alongside Randy Quaid, Kenneth McMillan, Melanie Mayron, Christopher Guest, and the "voice" of Jerry Garcia, who used guitar effects for a robot. It was Kaufman's final performance in a theatrical film. Universal Pictures released the film in the United States on December 18, 1981.

Production

Director Allan Arkush stated that his original intention for the film was for it to be "a Borzage movie with robots [...] [showing] the spiritual side of love, and the robots come to life because of the love, so I thought, 'This is a Borzage movie,' which was, you know, the wrong choice. They wanted a wacky comedy." In retrospect, he also stated that he should have allowed Andy Kaufman to play multiple parts in the film, a la Peter Sellers.

Sigourney Weaver was offered a role and was interested in the film, as she wanted to work with Andy Kaufman, but Weaver's agent persuaded her to turn it down.

Because of a strike by the Screen Actors Guild, filming was shut down in July 1980 (along with numerous other movies and television shows). The strike ended at the beginning of October 1980 (filming had started in June).

In his 1999 book Andy Kaufman: Revealed, Bob Zmuda wrote that Kaufman and Zmuda had "pitched" the screenplay of Kaufman's The Tony Clifton Story, a movie about the life and times of his alter-ego Tony Clifton, to Universal Studios. The Universal executives were concerned that Kaufman had not acted in films except for a small role, and they arranged for him to star in Heartbeeps to test whether he could carry a movie.

John Hill adapted the screenplay into a novel, Heartbeeps, published in December 1981.

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