Rotten
[Columbus] pushes the film's slender premise much too far.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Heartbreak Hotel
1972. My family needed some help, my town needed a hero, and my band needed a break. So I borrowed Mom's pink Cadillac and I kidnapped Elvis Presley, and our lives were never the same again.
1988 · 1h 37m · PG-13
Comedy, Music
Directed by
Chris Columbus
Overview
When a teen tries to set up a band at his school, his mother - who was a big fan of Elvis Presley - gets in a wreck. He and his band members then decide to kidnap Elvis and hook him up with his mother.
Director and cast
- Chris Columbus Director
- David Keith as Elvis Presley
- Tuesday Weld as Marie Wolfe
- Charlie Schlatter as Johnny Wolfe
- Angela Goethals as Pam Wolfe
- Jacque Lynn Colton as Rosie Pantangellio
- Chris Mulkey as Steve Ayres
- Karen Landry as Irene
- Tudor Sherrard as Paul Quinine
- Paul J. Harkins as Brian Gasternick
- Noel Derecki as Tony Vandelo
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
38%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Face it. The King has left the building, gone to that Caesars Palace in the sky. Columbus, say goodbye.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
Rotten
Here it is, the goofiest movie of the year, a movie so bad in so many different and endearing ways that I'm damned if I don't feel genuine affection for it.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
One would like to think that Tuesday Weld was in on the absurdity of this enterprise, but this one treats it all straight, with a solemnity that may have you rolling in the aisles.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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