Train for Hollywood

Train for Hollywood

92 mins | Comedy | Aug. 24, 1987

A young woman is bitten by the acting bug after seeing Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like It Hot". She patterns herself after MM and after finishing high school goes for screen tests to the Film Academy. Rejected because of her crooked teeth she takes a job of selling beer on a train and starts writing to Billy Wilder, trying to be casted in his next movie. At the trains station she meets a would-be cinematographer who is color blind. They become friends sharing their dreams of going to Hollywood. One day she finds a goldfish trapped in a beer bottle: she sets her free and makes three wishes, not for herself but for her friends. To her surprise all of them come true. As a reward she gets a long awaited call from Billy Wilder. Written by Polish Cinema Database

Train for Hollywood

92 mins | Comedy | Aug. 24, 1987

Train for Hollywood
A young woman is bitten by the acting bug after seeing Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like It Hot". She patterns herself after MM and after finishing high school goes for screen tests to the Film Academy. Rejected because of her crooked teeth she takes a job of selling beer on a train and starts writing to Billy Wilder, trying to be casted in his next movie. At the trains station she meets a would-be cinematographer who is color blind. They become friends sharing their dreams of going to Hollywood. One day she finds a goldfish trapped in a beer bottle: she sets her free and makes three wishes, not for herself but for her friends. To her surprise all of them come true. As a reward she gets a long awaited call from Billy Wilder. Written by Polish Cinema Database
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers Zespół Filmowy "Rondo"
Original title Pociąg do Hollywood
Directors Radosław Piwowarski
Writers Radosław Piwowarski

Cast

Katarzyna Figura

as Mariola "Merlin" Wafelek

Piotr Siwkiewicz

as Piotruś

Rafał Węgrzyniak

as Rafał

Jerzy Stuhr

as Reżyser Zdzich

Eugeniusz Priwieziencew

as Milioner Żenia

Krystyna Feldman

as Pani Krysia, strażniczka w Fabryce Snów Nr 1

Barbara Grochmalska

as Helenka, siostra Merlin

Józef Lipski

as Akordeonista

Wojciech Skibiński

as Ojciec Merlin