Heartbreak Hotel (film)

Heartbreak Hotel is a 1988 American comedy film written and directed by Chris Columbus, and stars David Keith and Tuesday Weld. Set in 1972, the story deals with one of the many legends involving Elvis Presley Keith about his fictional kidnapping, and his subsequent redemption from decadence.

The film opens with a single mother and her two children, and a teenage son and nineyearold daughter, running a boarding house. The mother is hurt in a car accident, after her drunkard boyfriend crashed, and he kidnaps her favorite singer, Elvis Presley, for her birthday, getting the owner of a local pizzeria who looks eerily like Elvis mother to pose as his mothers ghost as a distraction. Elvis awakens, after being drugged by the boy, in the boarding house. He and the boy do not get along at first. The boy disrespects for the 70s Elvis saying that he sold out to Vegas. However, the boy and Elvis get to know each other, and they became friends. Elvis even plays Heartbreak Hotel with the boys band at a talent show.The film received mixed reviews. It currently holds arating on Rotten Tomatoes based onreviews. ........

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