Heartbreak Hotel

Heartbreak Hotel is a 1988 American comedy film written and directed by Chris Columbus, and stars 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. The film was shot on location in Austin, Texas, at Green Pastures the former residence of John Henry Faulk. Plot The film opens in 1972 with a single mother and her two children (a teenage son and nine-year-old daughter) running a boarding house. The mother is hurt in a car accident and hospitalized. As a birthday present, her son and his band drive her Pink Cadillac to Cleveland, Ohio, to kidnap her favorite singer, Elvis Presley. He gets the owner of a local pizzeria, who looks eerily like Elvis' mother, to pose as his mother's ghost as a distraction, and then drugs Elvis with chloroform. Elvis awakens in the boarding house. He and the boy do not get along at first. The boy disrespects Elvis, accusing him of selling out to Vegas. However, the boy and Elvis get to know each other, and they became friends. Elvis closes the film playing "Heartbreak Hotel" with the boy's band at the high school talent show. Cast David Keith as Elvis Presley Tuesday Weld as Marie Wolfe Charlie Schlatter as Johnny Wolfe Angela Goethals as Pam Wolfe Jacque Lynn Colton as Rosie Pantangellio Chris Mulkey as Steve Ayres Karen Landry as Irene Tudor Sherrard as Paul Quinine Paul J. Harkins as Brian Gasternick (as Paul Harkins) Noel Derecki as Tony Vandelo Dana Barron as Beth Devereux T. Graham Brown as Jerry Schilling Dennis Letts as Alan Fortas Stephen Lee Davis as George Klein Blue Deckert as Jones Michael Costello as Doctor Charles Devereux John L. Martin as Sheriff Abrams John Hawkes as M.C. Jerry Haynes as Mr. Hansen Al Dvorin as Self Ruth Sadlier as Aunt Anne Monica Devereux as Monica Hal Ketchum as Steve's Friend Debra Luijtjes as Cheryl Diane Robin as Donna