Echo Park (1985)
Can a stripper, a pizza-man and a bodybuilder find happiness in L.A.?
In the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, everybody is somebody else. May, a single mother who delivers strip-O-grams, dreams of being an actress. She rents one of her rooms out to a pizza-man cum songwriter named Jonathan. Meanwhile, in the next apartment, August, an Austrian bodybuilder, fancies himself the next Arnold Schwarzenegger. As the pressures of everyday life in LA mount, Jonathan and August vie for May's love.
- Date of release
- 1985-11-05
- TMDB
- 5.3 / 10 (17)
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Director
- Robert Dornhelm
Casting
- Susan Dey — May
- Tom Hulce — Jonathan
- Michael Bowen — August
- Christopher Walker — Henry
- Shirley Jo Finney — Gloria
- Heinrich Schweiger — August's Father
- Cheech Marin — Syd
- John Paragon — Hugo
- Cassandra Peterson — Sheri
- Timothy Carey — Vinnie
- Martin Suppan — Austrian Consul
- Robert R. Shafer — Commercial Director
Interesting facts
Echo Park is a 1986 American comedy-drama film set in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The plot follows several aspiring actors, musicians and models. The film premiered at the 42nd Venice International Film Festival, in the Venezia Giovani sidebar. The cast includes Tom Hulce, Susan Dey, Cheech Marin and Michael Bowen. Cassandra Peterson, better known as Elvira, has a brief cameo as a secretary. Echo Park was the final film of veteran actor Timothy Carey.
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