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Overview

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5.7/10   288 votes
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Director:
Robert Dornhelm
Writer:
Michael Ventura (writer)
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Release Date:
25 July 1986 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Tagline:
Reality is for dreamers.
Plot:
In the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, everyone is more than they initially seem. May waits tables... more | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
Sundance Journal: Day 10
 (From ioncinema. 29 January 2006)

User Comments:
A Pizza and A Dream ... more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Susan Dey ... May

Tom Hulce ... Jonathan

Michael Bowen ... August
Christopher Walker ... Henry
Shirley Jo Finney ... Gloria
Heinrich Schweiger ... August's father

Cheech Marin ... Syd
John Paragon ... Hugo

Cassandra Peterson ... Sheri

Timothy Carey ... Vinnie
Martin Suppan ... Austrian consul

Robert R. Shafer ... Commercial director
Dorothy Dells ... Consulate secretary
Yana Nirvana ... Woman in bar
Paul Anselmo ... Policeman
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Additional Details

Runtime:
88 min
Country:
USA | Austria
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Company:
Sascha-Verleih more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The first film made by Tom Hulce to be set in the present rather than in the past. more
Goofs:
Continuity: May's cigarette when she's on the stairs of her house. more
Soundtrack:
Tomorrow's Gonna Be a Better Day more

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4 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
A Pizza and A Dream ..., 11 February 1999
10/10
Author: jbdean from California

"We're all just delivering pizza ... " [Jonathan]*

Everyone has dreams ... but reality makes us have to live the 'normal life' while waiting for our dreams to come true. That's the way it is in Echo Park, California for three mismatched people that come together and form a bond of friendship that none of them ever expected!

A Pizza Man who's really a song writer. A Waitress that's really an actress. A Body Builder that's really the next Arnold Schwarzenegger.

In Echo Park ... dreams can come true!

===========> *TOM HULCE as Jonathan ... shows the tenderness of this endearing character. And we also get to hear some of his beautiful voice as he sings, pieces, of the song he's working on! (A definite added bonus.)

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