Heartbreak Hotel (film)
| Heartbreak Hotel | |
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 Theatrical release poster |
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| Directed by | Chris Columbus |
| Written by | Chris Columbus |
| Narrated by | Debra Hill Lynda Obst |
| Starring | David Keith Tuesday Weld Charlie Schlatter Angela Goethals |
| Music by | Georges Delerue Frank Fitzpatrick (Supervising Music Editor & Music Supervisor) |
| Cinematography | Steve Dobson |
| Editing by | Raja Gosnell |
| Distributed by | Touchstone Pictures |
| Release date(s) | September 30, 1988 |
| Running time | 97 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $5,509,417 (USA) |
Heartbreak Hotel is a 1988 comedy film written and directed by Chris Columbus and starring David Keith and Tuesday Weld. Set in 1972, the story deals with one of the many "legends" involving Elvis Presley (Keith) about his fictional kidnapping, and his subsequent redemption from decadence.
The film was shot on location in Austin, Texas at Green Pastures the former residence of John Henry Faulk
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[edit] Plot
The story opens on a single mother and her two children, a teenage son and nine year old daughter, who run a boarding house. The mother is hurt in a car accident after her drunkard boyfriend crashed, so the son kidnaps her favorite singer, Elvis Presley, for her birthday, getting the owner of a local pizzeria who looks eerily like Elvis' mother to pose as his mother's ghost as a distraction. Elvis awakens, after being drugged by the boy, in the boarding house. Elvis and the boy don't get along at first. The boy has no respect for the 70's Elvis saying that he sold out to Vegas. Through the course of the movie, however, the boy and Elvis get to know each other and develop a friendship. Elvis even plays "Heartbreak Hotel" with the boy's band at a talent show.
[edit] Music
Most of the songs contained in the movie are actual Elvis Presley recordings despite the film being fictional, with David Keith performing the title track in the style of the 1968 television special recording.
[edit] Trivia
- Tuesday Weld was Elvis Presley's co-star and joint love interest (with Millie Perkins) in the 1961 movie Wild in the Country.
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