The read
Critics rate it 21 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 28m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb5.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes78%
Critics rate it 21 points higher than audiences do.
17 audience votes
Key crew
- Robert DornhelmDirector
- Michael VenturaScreenplay
- David RickettsOriginal Music Composer
- Robert DornhelmWriter
Cast
- Susan DeyMay
- Tom HulceJonathan
- Michael BowenAugust
- Christopher WalkerHenry
- Shirley Jo FinneyGloria
- Heinrich SchweigerAugust's Father
- Cheech MarinSyd
- John ParagonHugo
- Cassandra PetersonSheri
- Timothy CareyVinnie
- Martin SuppanAustrian Consul
- Robert R. ShaferCommercial Director
Stills
Themes
dreamsstripperlingerie slip