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.
Acting
Tom Hulce's twitchy songwriter energy is everything
Production
Echo Park location shooting before gentrification
Costume
Lingerie-as-outerwear aesthetic, unironically
Director
Robert Dornhelm
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Susan Dey was coming off L.A. Law and reportedly took this specifically to shake her prim TV image.
This is basically the forgotten cousin of Desperately Seeking Susan — same year, same scrappy-LA-dreamers energy, zero of the cultural footprint.
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