SYNOPSIS:

John, a failed writer, moonlights as an Elvis Presley impersonator, and he's even worse at that, I mean really bad. Thrown out of his apartment, he locates new lodging with an attractive divorcee who has a problem child, her young son. John agrees to rent and serve as a handyman. He gets a part time job playing Santa Claus for the elderly residents of an old-age retirement home run by a tyrannical manager named Ms. Lug. Though he now wears his Santa Claus suit, John still wears his fake Elvis hairpiece and sunglasses. He brings a cassette player into the sick rooms of the elderly patients and does a really bad Elvis routine. John begins a relationship with his attractive landlady and tries to forge a bond with her troubled son. John and Ms. Lug don't get along as she abuses the residents of the care home. John meets a strange elderly resident who turns out to be a Christmas angel sent down to earth to give John a second chance at success. He turns him into the greatest Elvis impersonator. John is suddenly a big hit at the rest home singing "Rock-A-Hula" for the inmates. An evil foreign dictator sees John on TV and instructs his henchmen to kidnap him because he loves Elvis Presley and believes John to be the real Elvis (the dictator rejects reports Elvis had died as merely a subversive plot). John ends up in the dictator's country and finds him to be a maniac who likes to dress up in the costumes of all the famous Hollywood movies he has seen and loves, for example, the Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. John starts a revolution, topples the dictator, returns a hero, marries his landlady, helps her son with his self-image, and takes over management of the rest home. He is then faced with a choice, remain the greatest Elvis and make millions at it, or just go back to being himself. Overall Theme: The most important person to be in life is just who you are. John Sammon is a professional short script writer, standup comic, comedy writer, author, and political satire humor writer for And Magazine.