Echo Park

Echo Park

88 mins | Drama, Comedy | Jan. 1, 1985

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.

Echo Park

88 mins | Drama, Comedy | Jan. 1, 1985

Echo Park
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.
IMDb rating 5.7
Producers Sascha-Verleih, Wien-Film
Original title Echo Park
Directors Carl Manning, Robert Dornhelm
Writers Michael Ventura, Robert Dornhelm

Cast

Susan Dey

as May

Tom Hulce

as Jonathan

Michael Bowen

as August

Shirley Jo Finney

as Gloria

Heinrich Schweiger

as August's Father

Cheech Marin

as Syd

John Paragon

as Hugo

Timothy Carey

as Vinnie

Martin Suppan

as Austrian Consul

Robert R. Shafer

as Commercial Director

Dorothy Dells

as Consulate Secretary

Yana Nirvana

as Woman in Bar

Paul Anselmo

as Policeman

Jesse Aragon

as Policeman

Robert Cabral

as Policeman

Peter Drain

as Bar Customer

John Pochna

as Bar Customer

Dee Cooper

as Man in Park

Douglas M. Ford

as Biker

Stephen Gaines

as Desk Sergeant

Fred Leaf

as Burt Reynolds Look-alike

Mary Thompson

as Prospective Roommate

Anne Marie Bates

as Prospective Roommate

Jason Mayall

as Prospective Roommate

Renee LeBallister

as Prospective Roommate

Michael Marloe

as Partygoer

Jim Smith

as Partygoer

Skip O'Brien

as Prisoner

Biff Yeager

as Jailer

Jackie Easton

as Girl in Commercial

Bob Moss

as Birthday Boy

Doug Knott

as Birthday Man

James Helppi

as Guest in Elevator

George W. Scott

as Man with Tip

De Schneider

as Real Estate Secretary

Patti Tippo

as Telegram Stripper

Max Trumpower

as Telegram Stripper

Penny Harris

as Telegram Stripper

Merrill Ward

as Telegram Stripper

Dana Sue Collins

as Telegram Stripper

Peter Kent

as Arnold Schwarzenegger (uncredited)