Echo Park

Nov 5, 1985

1h 28m

★ 5.2

Can a stripper, a pizza-man and a bodybuilder find happiness in L.A.?

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Sascha-Verleih

Wien-Film

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Cast

May

Susan Dey

Jonathan

Tom Hulce

August

Michael Bowen

Henry

Christopher Walker

Gloria

Shirley Jo Finney

August's Father

Heinrich Schweiger

Syd

Cheech Marin

Hugo

John Paragon

Sheri

Cassandra Peterson

Vinnie

Timothy Carey

Austrian Consul

Martin Suppan

Commercial Director

Robert R. Shafer

The stage is set for a series of confrontations when photographer Mark Jefferson (Tom Eplin) agrees to help his friend Roger (John Mayall) defend his night club against a handful of organized crime figures. Mark has an added incentive for becoming involved as his ex-girlfriend Carol (Cheri Cameron Newell) sings at the club. But the gangsters are willing to use mayhem and murder in order to take over Roger's business. It appears that the petty mobsters are out to sell illegal weapons to anyone who wants them, especially L.A.'s youth, instead of using the club as a front for a prostitution ring as Roger suspects. Soon Mark and his trusty motorcycle have their work cut out for them.

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