Elvis Has Left the Building | |
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Directed by | Joel Zwick |
Produced by | Sharon Harel Tova Laiter Jane Barclay Susanne Bohnet Nava Levin Manfred D. Heid Gerd Koechlin Josef Lautenschlager Hannah Leader Andreas Thiesmeyer |
Written by | Mitchell Ganem Adam-Michael Garber |
Starring |
John Corbett Kim Basinger Annie Potts Sean Astin Mike Starr Phill Lewis Denise Richards Philip Charles MacKenzie Tom Hanks |
Music by | David Kitay |
Cinematography | Paul Elliott |
Edited by | Heather Persons |
Production
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Capitol Films
Equity Pictures Medienfonds GmbH & Co. KG |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release date
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August 27, 2004 |
Running time
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90 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $11.5 million |
Elvis Has Left the Building is a 2004 film directed by Joel Zwick and starring Kim Basinger as a cosmetics saleswoman who accidentally kills a series of Elvis impersonators as they travel to a convention in Las Vegas.John Corbett plays an advertising executive and her love interest. Tom Hanks has a cameo appearance as one of the dead Elvis impersonators. Angie Dickinson plays Basinger's mother, a former mechanic for the real Elvis.
The film opens with Harmony (Basinger) driving down a long, winding road, the music of Elvis playing on the radio. She feels that her life is empty and artificial. She is a traveling cosmetic saleswoman, setting up "Pink Lady" training seminars in the western portion of the United States. When she is asked if she's "one of those Mary Kaye ladies," she replies, "No, we're pink, they're more salmon." While she is popular and successful selling "Pink Lady," there is nothing real or honest in her life.
As Harmony travels around the country, trying to figure out what is missing from her life, Elvis impersonators keep dying in her wake. She is romantically pursued by Miles (Corbett).
These songs appear in the film, listed alphabetically.