Hot Dog…The Movie

Hot Dog…The Movie is a teen sex comedy ski film released in January 1984. The film went on to gross over $17 million.

Hot Dog... The Movie!
Theatrical release poster by Phil Roberts[1]
Directed byPeter Markle
Written byMike Marvin
Produced byEdward S. Feldman
Mike Marvin
Starring
CinematographyPaul Ryan
Edited byJohn Stewart
Music byPeter Bernstein
Mark Goldenberg
John Stewart
Production
companies
The Hotdog Partnership
United Artists
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed byMGM/UA Entertainment Co.
Release date
  • January 13, 1984 (1984-01-13)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2 million[2]
Box office$17.7 million[3] or $22 million[2]

Plot

The film stars Patrick Houser as Harkin Banks, a young and ambitious freestyle skier from Bonners Ferry, ID 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 who called themselves the "Rat Pack" (whose leader, Dan O'Callahan is played by David Naughton), picks up an Austrian 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 1982 Playboy Playmate of the Year Shannon Tweed in just her second major film role). The movie ends with an extended race scene, all of the characters take part in a "Chinese Downhill" race to determine the real champion of the competition. Prior to the Chinese downhill, Kendo Yamamoto asks "whata dafuka isa Chinese downhill?".

Cast
  • 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 The Motel Clerk
  • Peter Vogt as Fader Black
  • Robert Fuhrmann as Rick Lauter
  • David Chilton as The Corrupt Ski Judge

Reception

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."[4]

References
  1. "Hot Dog... The Movie Movie Poster".
  2. WE'RE TALKING GROSS, TACKY AND DUMB Brown, Peter H. Los Angeles Times 20 Jan 1985: 6.
  3. Hot Dog…The Movie at Box Office Mojo
  4. "Hot Dog... The Movie -- Skiers Competing and Playing," Janet Maslin, New York Times January 14, 1986.


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