Heartbreak Hotel (1988) - Quotes

Rock and Roll Dreamscape Unfolds

Taglines: A rock and roll fantasy.

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A Bold Decision Changes Everything Forever

Taglines: 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.

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The Cost of Success and Freedom

Elvis: Maybe I ought to go back to the old way of doing things. Really rock them again!

Jerry: [uneasy] Hell, you can't afford to take a chance like that, E. What about your image?

Elvis: [bitterly, to himself] Can't afford it? Man, when I was broke I could afford to do anything I wanted? Now I'm a millionaire. Can't afford to do a damned thing.

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Understanding Through Shared Experiences

Elvis: [pauses] When I first met you, I didn't like you at all. I thought you were the most arrogant, selfish, ungrateful little bastard I'd ever met. Then I started to remember how much I was like that at your age.

Johnny: Elvis, man. What happened at the talent show - thanks. I know you did that for me.

Elvis: [frowns] Hell no, kid. I didn't do that for you. I did that for rock and roll.

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