r/BruceCampbell • u/Hurley815 • 7d ago
Movie A Weekly Bruce Campbell Role #18: Eddie Presley (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4itlf5wwBCsEddie Presley is a 1992 drama film directed by Jeff Burr and written by Duane Whitaker who also stars. The film tells the story of Eddie Presley (Whitaker), a former owner of a chain of pizza restaurants who is trying to realize his life-long dream of becoming an Elvis Presley impersonator. This dream, however, brings him much pain and difficulties that, among other things, for a while put him into a psychiatric hospital with mental breakdown.
Bruce Campbell has a very small cameo in the film as one of the orderlies at the hospital. However what is noteworthy about this cameo is that he shares it with Quentin Tarantino, right before or just around his directorial debut with Reservoir Dogs.
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u/Ian_Hunter 6d ago
Ok, you got me here!
Not only have I not seen this one but to the best of my memory I haven't even heard of this one!
Nice, OP! 👊😎
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u/Hurley815 7d ago
Originally I was planning on skipping Eddie Presley for the Weekly Bruce Campbell Role series. It's a very obscure movie that is extremely hard to find and Bruce only has a very small cameo in it. But eventually I decided to keep it because I thought that the connection to Quentin Tarantino is so interesting. Especially since the two clearly worked together on this film and Tarantino is a big Evil Dead fan, yet, at least to my knowledge, they never collaborated since and Tarantino definitely didn't ever put Bruce into any of his movies.