Echo Park (film)

Echo Park is an American- Austrian film comedy from 1986. Directed by Robert Dorn helmet, the screenplay was written by Michael Ventura.

Action

The film tells about people who live in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. May has an eight- year-old son, Henry. They sought a career as an actress and works part-time at times as a stripper after she quit as a waitress in a bar. Due to financial problem she is looking for a roommate. The Austrians August, who lives in the same house as May, has similar dreams like them and describes himself as a "body sculptor ". Both learn the pizza suppliers know Jonathan, who immediately falls in May and moves in with her. Jonathan is quite introverted and writes in his spare time, poems and songs. However, he is too shy to really pursue his passion. After initial difficulties soon developed a good relationship between Jonathan and May's son Henry. You do a lot together and accompanied Henry Jonathan often at his pizza deliveries.

August wants to go to a reception at the Austrian Embassy, where he wants to meet Arnold Schwarzenegger. He hopes that this could be his career assist. Meanwhile, Jonathan dreams of a marriage to May and is afraid that she might prefer the muscle-bound August.

Reviews

Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times 25 April 1986, the film was " affable but lazy ". Be it done nothing special, the three main characters would merely observed. The performances of the three leads are " winning ".

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun - Times on April 25, 1986, the film lay near, everyone in Los Angeles was "a little crazy " - and this is " OK " because it show the individuality of a person. He had to give no great message and no special action to tell ("" Echo Park " has no great statement to make and no particular plot to unfold "). He 'll tell only of the three protagonists and their lives.

The magazine TV directly 25/2007 criticized the " crazy end ", which pull the film down.

Background

The film was in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles ( where formerly numerous film studios were located and since the Second World War to settle immigrants), in Innsbruck, filmed in Salzburg and Vienna. He played in the cinemas of the USA, a 701 892 U.S. dollars.

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