Heartbreak Hotel (film)

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Heartbreak Hotel
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Chris Columbus
Written by	Chris Columbus
Narrated by	Debra Hill Lynda Obst
Starring	David Keith Tuesday Weld Charlie Schlatter Angela Goethals
Music by	Georges Delerue Frank Fitzpatrick (Supervising Music Editor & Music Supervisor)
Cinematography	Steve Dobson
Editing by	Raja Gosnell
Distributed by	Touchstone Pictures
Release date(s)	1988
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
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Heartbreak Hotel is a 1988 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.

[edit] 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 pizzaria 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.