Heartbreak Hotel (film)

Infobox Film
name = Heartbreak Hotel


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director = Chris Columbus
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writer = Chris Columbus
narrator = Debra Hill
Lynda Obst
starring = David Keith
Tuesday Weld
Charlie Schlatter
Angela Goethals
music = Georges Delerue
Frank Fitzpatrick (Supervising Music Editor & Music Supervisor)
cinematography = Steve Dobson
editing = Raja Gosnell
distributor = Touchstone Pictures
released = 1988
runtime = 97 min.
country = United States
language = English
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imdb_id = 0095288

"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.

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.

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