Stay Tuned (1992)

Directed by

Peter Hyams

Genre

fantasy film, parody film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 28m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 192 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A TV-obsessed man is tricked into signing a deal that sends him and his wife into a twisted television dimension. They must survive 24 hours of chaotic, dangerous shows to escape back to the real world.

comedicfast-pacedfantasticalsatiricalanxiousabsurdchaotic

What happens

Stay Tuned is a 1992 American fantasy comedy film directed by Peter Hyams and written by Jim Jennewein and Tom S. Parker, with an animated sequence supervised by Chuck Jones. The film stars John Ritter, Pam Dawber, Jeffrey Jones, and Eugene Levy. Its plot follows TV fanatic Roy Knable who gets a deal from a salesman, who is really an emissary from hell, for a new high-tech satellite dish to gain as many exclusive TV channels as he wants. The dish then sucks Roy and his wife Helen into a hellish television world, where they must survive for 24 hours in order to be released from it. These experiences teach Roy a lesson about the dangers of too much TV. Stay Tuned was released in the United States on August 14, 1992, by Warner Bros. The film received mixed reviews from critics and was a commercial failure, grossing $12 million against a $15–20 million budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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