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Michael Ventura (writer)
Release Date:
25 July 1986 (USA)
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Reality is for dreamers.
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In the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, everyone is more than they initially seem. May waits tables...
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A cute film about some fairly pathetic people
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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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88 min
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Continuity: May's cigarette when she's on the stairs of her house.
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Strip-o-Gram
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A cute film. Echo Park is apparently a fairly seedy district of Los Angeles. Susan Dey plays a bartender who wants to be an actress (unheard of in L.A., huh?) and gets a job doing Strip-o-grams. The pathetic thing is, she considers this her big break. She takes in a roommate, Tom Hulce, who delivers pizzas for a living. He immediately falls for her, but she is enamored of a neighbor, an Austrian who spends all his time pumping iron. He is convinced that he will be the next Arnold Schwarzenegger, and is completely oblivious to how miraculous it is that there is one Arnold, and hardly a big market for another. Anyway, Hulce's character spends much of the film suffering that terrible pain of loving someone, but seeing her throw herself at someone inferior. I had never heard of this film, but I liked it fairly well. Cassandra Peterson and Cheech Marin have small roles, also. Grade: B