Movie

Echo Park (1985)

• R
• November 5, 1985
• 1h 28m

• Comedy
• Drama

“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.

Director

Robert Dornhelm

Writers

Michael Ventura, Robert Dornhelm

Starring

Susan Dey, Tom Hulce, Michael Bowen