Echo Park (1985)

5.3/10 88 min Comedy Drama

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.

Cast

Susan Dey

May

Tom Hulce

Jonathan

Michael Bowen

August

Shirley Jo Finney

Gloria

Heinrich Schweiger

August's Father

Cheech Marin

Syd

Cassandra Peterson

Sheri

Timothy Carey

Vinnie

Robert R. Shafer

Commercial Director

Yana Nirvana

Woman in Bar

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