| Hot Dog... The Movie! | |
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| Directed by | Peter Markle |
| Produced by | Edward S. Feldman Mike Marvin |
| Written by | Mike Marvin |
| Starring | David Naughton Patrick Houser Tracy Smith Shannon Tweed |
| Music by | Peter Bernstein Mark Goldenberg John Stewart |
| Cinematography | Paul Ryan |
| Editing by | John Stewart |
| Studio | United Artists |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | January 13, 1984 |
| Running time | 96 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $17,700,000 |
Hot Dog…The Movie is a comedy ski film released in January 1984. The film went on to gross over $17 million and became one of the iconic comedies of the 1980s.
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Premise [edit]
The film stars Patrick Houser as Harkin Banks, a young and ambitious freestyle skier from Idaho who is determined to prove himself in a freestyle skiing competition at Squaw Valley. Along the way he teams with a pack of fun-loving incorrigibles (whose leader, Dan O'Callahan is played by David Naughton), picks up an Austrian arch-nemesis named Rudi (John Patrick Reger), and enters a love triangle with a pair of blondes, a young woman named Sunny (Tracy N. Smith) and the more mature Sylvia Fonda (played by Playboy Playmate Shannon Tweed in one of her first major film roles).
Cast [edit]
- David Naughton as Dan O'Callahan
- Patrick Houser as Harkin Banks
- Tracy Smith as Sunny
- John Patrick Reger as Rudolph "Rudi" Garmisch
- Frank Koppala as Squirrel Murphy
- James Saito as Kendo Yamamoto
- Shannon Tweed as Sylvia Fonda
- George Theobald as Slasher
- Mark Vance as Heinz Hartman
- Eric Watson as Fergy
- Lynn Wieland as Michelle
- Sandy Hackett as T-Shirt contestant M.C.
- Crystal Smith as Motel Clerk
- Peter Vogt as Fader Black
- Robert Fuhrmann as Rick Lauter
Reception [edit]
Janet Maslin, writing in the New York Times, gave a generally positive review, describing the film as "light and less moronic than it might have been."[1]
References [edit]
- ^ "Hot Dog... The Movie -- Skiers Competing and Playing," Janet Maslin, New York Times January 14, 1986.
External links [edit]
- Hot Dog ... The Movie at the Internet Movie Database
- Hot Dog... The Movie at AllRovi
- Hot Dog... The Movie at Rotten Tomatoes
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