Echo Park (1985)
Can a stripper, a pizza-man and a bodybuilder find happiness in L.A.?
88 min
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.
- Release date
- April 17, 1986
- Country of origin
- United States, Austria
Trailer
Cast
- Susan Dey as May
- Tom Hulce as Jonathan
- Michael Bowen as August
- Christopher Walker as Henry
- Shirley Jo Finney as Gloria
- Heinrich Schweiger as August's father
- Cheech Marin as Syd
- John Paragon as Hugo
- Cassandra Peterson as Sheri
- Timothy Carey as Vinnie
Crew
- Robert Dornhelm · Director
- Michael Ventura · Writer
- Walter Shenson · Producer
- David Ricketts · Composer
- Karl Kofler · Cinematographer
- Viktor Korger · Cinematographer
- Ingrid Koller · Editor
- Barbara Hanley · Casting director
- Cathy Henderson · Casting director