It's 1972, and Johnny Wolfe (Charles Schlatter -- 18 AGAIN, BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY) borrows his mom's pink Cadillac and gets swept up in a series of outrageous events. After successfully kidnapping Elvis Presley (David Keith -- AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN), Johnny's family and sleepy hometown will never be the same! Another lively hit from the makers of ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING, HEARTBREAK HOTEL delivers nonstop entertainment for everyone!
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Nice comedy film involving a grown-up Elvis Presley and a pivotal role he ends up playing (literally) in a young man's troubled family life.
some good lines came from that film :)
"Alice Cooper?!... yeah right a singer with a GIRL's name..!"
Good fun movie and nice cover rendition of Heartbreak Hotel in the last scene between the two.
March 20, 2008| | | A silly stupid movie that I love | |
Let me be very clear, this is a stupid movie. I am not pretending it is otherwise. Let me also say, I love to watch it over and over. The plot is early 1970's rock verses Elvis ... Could Elvis have hung on to the young crowd if he maintained his edge. That is the question the movie tries to answer and in any good feel good movie the answer is yes. It is an Elvis ROCKY story. I love Elvis, I love the tone, I love question it asks and the respect for both sides it gives, and I love the way it was played by the actors. Call me stupid, I like this movie.
August 6, 2006| | | Get ready Elvis fans for Heartbreak Hotel | |
Before Christopher Columbus directed the Home Alone movies, Mrs. Doubtfire and the first 2 Harry Potter movies, he directed this film named Heartbreak Hotel. Tuesday Weld which I am sure that you may already know of, that co-started with the real life Elvis Presley, co-stars in this movie, and this time she is a diehard Elvis Presley fan. The year is 1972, and of course if the story is supposed to have Elvis Presley in it, it would have to take place during his lifetime. Now maybe it didn't win over the critics, but at least Elvis fans should be able to love and enjoy this film. But instead, it is David Keith that is taking on this role, and he is in and out so quickly, that you might even forget that he is in the movie. He is seen very breifly in the beginning of the movie, and then the story shifts over to a small town in Ohio. Johnny Wolfe (Charlie Schlatter) is a roll and roller that dreams of winning a school talent show, but every year he gets cut, and this year he believes it going to be differenmt, but once again, he and his bandmits goes to an aduition, and once again the souts cuts them, which he believes they don't like Rock and Roll. He lives with his Mom Marie Wolfe (Tuesday Weld) and kid sister Pam Wolfe (Angela Goethals), who believes that somebody is out to get her, if the lights are out when she is sleeping, and so she likes to sleep with the lights on. And he doesn't like his Mom's boyfriend, and when she is injured in a car crash, while on a short drive, and is in the hopsital. Johnny is waken up by a cop that came to his house to deliver the news, along with news that the door was left open. So he goes to visit her in the hospital, and then has a brainstrom of how he can cheer her up. And when he learns that Elvis Presley (David Keith) is coming to Cleveland to play a concert. So he and his badnmates makes a plan to go to the show and kidnap him, so he can bring him home to his mother. But Johnny has another problem, how to even get close to Elvis, and he remembers that Elvis was very close to his own mother Gladys Presley, until her death, and they know of a cook (Jacque Lynn Colton) that looks like her, so now he has to get her to agree to go to the show with them, looking exactly like Elvis' late Mother, and of course you should know how Elvis would react to this. And they take off for Cleveland, to attend the show, and to lure Elvis Presley away from his bandmates, and secuirty. And the plans works, but of course Elvis doesn't like this idea at first. Now I don't know that the scene in this movie, that they totally remake a scene from Loving You, which involves Elvis Presley himself is really that needed.
January 30, 2006 | | A story tale to Elvis fans... | |
Elvi's fan will love it! It is not real, David Keith is not the best "Elvis" around the world but he did a great performance with the songs in this movie. Also, almost two hours remembering the king. Need more?
August 6, 2005| | | Master OF The Rare LASERDISCs Movies. | |
I have Heartbreak Hotel ON LASERDISC,'TIS A great Comedy Movie,You will love it :)
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