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Echo Park (1985)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Austria
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
clever, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, offbeat
Audience:
date night
Plot:
stripper, dream, single parent, actor's life, friendship, friends, addiction, family relations, love and romance, singleness, couples, gays and lesbians, self discovery, showbiz, nightlife, looking for love, down on your luck, introspection, lifestyle, unfulfilled love, gender, crumbling marriage, human nature, artists and showbiz, hopes ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, europe, austria
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