Elvis Has Left the Building
Elvis Has Left the Building is a 2004 black comedy film directed by Joel Zwick and starring Kim Basinger as a cosmetics saleswoman who accidentally kills a series of Elvis impersonators as she travels 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.
Plot
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.
Cast
- Albert Fry, Jr.
- Angie Dickinson
- Annie Potts
- Arron Shiver
- Billy Ray Cyrus
- Catherine Haun
- David House
- David Leisure
- Denise Richards
- Gil McKinney
- Ivan Brutsche
- J.D. Garfield
- Jenny Gabrielle
- Jocelyn Towne
- Joel Zwick
- John Corbett
- Kevin Levrone
- Kim Basinger
- Madison McReynolds
- Marya Beauvais
- Megan Hollingshead
- Mike Starr
- Pat Morita
- Philip Charles MacKenzie
- Phill Lewis
- Richard Kind
- Robyn Reede
- Sean Astin
- Tom Hanks
- Vic Browder
- Wayne Newton
- William Sterchi
More details
| author | Adam-Michael Garber Mitchell Ganem |
|---|---|
| director | Joel Zwick |
| editor | Heather Persons |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | drive nothing train travel west |
| musicBy | David Kitay |
| producer | Andreas Thiesmeyer Gerd Koechlin Hannah Leader Jane Barclay Josef Lautenschlager Manfred D. Heid Nava Levin Sharon Harel Susanne Bohnet Tova Laiter |
| productionCompany | Capitol Films |
| publisher | Lionsgate Films |
| recordedAt | New Mexico |
| theme | black comedy |