Heartbreak Hotel (1988)

Directors

Chris Columbus

Cast

Angela Goethals, Charlie Schlatter, Chris Mulkey, Dana Barron, David Keith, Jerry Haynes, John Hawkes, Tuesday Weld

The story

Set in 1972, Heartbreak Hotel follows Marie Wolfe (played by Tuesday Weld), a single mother who runs a boarding house with her teenage son Johnny (played by Charlie Schlatter) and young daughter Pam (played by Angela Goethals). When Marie is seriously injured in a car accident, Johnny hatches an outlandish plan to cheer her up for her birthday: he decides to kidnap her musical idol, Elvis Presley (played by David Keith). Johnny and his high school band drive Marie’s pink Cadillac to Cleveland, Ohio, where Elvis is performing.

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