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| Directed by | Jim Abrahams |
| Produced by | Bill Badalato Pat Proft |
| Written by | Jim Abrahams Pat Proft |
| Starring | Charlie Sheen Cary Elwes Valeria Golino Lloyd Bridges Jon Cryer Kevin Dunn Bill Irwin |
| Cinematography | Bill Butler |
| Editing by | Jane Kurson Eric A. Sears |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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| Running time | 84 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $26 million[1] |
| Box office | $181,096,164[1] |
Hot Shots! is a 1991 comedy spoof film starring Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, Kevin Dunn, Jon Cryer and Ryan Stiles. It was directed by Jim Abrahams, co-director of Airplane! (another spoof), and was written by Abrahams and Pat Proft. The film primarily spoofs the 1986 action film Top Gun, but also draws material from films like Rocky and Superman. It spawned a sequel in 1993, Hot Shots! Part Deux. Sheen and Cryer would later co-star in the television series Two and a Half Men, in which Stiles also went on to play a recurring role.
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Hot Shots has been described as "Top Gun meets Airplane!".[2] The film begins at Flemner Air Base 20 years prior. A pilot named Leland "Buzz" Harley (Bill Irwin) loses control of his plane and ejects, leaving his co-pilot Dominic "Mailman" Farnum (Ryan Stiles) to crash alone; although Mailman survives, he's mistaken for a deer owing to the branches stuck to his helmet and is shot by a hunter. Topper Harley (Charlie Sheen) wakes up from a nightmare he's having about the event when Lt. Commander Block (Kevin Dunn) asks him to return to active duty as a pilot in the U.S. Navy, to help on a new top secret mission: Operation Sleepy Weasel. Harley starts to show some psychological problems, especially when his father is mentioned. His therapist, Ramada (Valeria Golino), tries to keep Topper from flying, but he relents, and also starts to build a budding romance with her. Meanwhile, Topper gets into a rivalry with another fighter pilot, Kent Gregory (Cary Elwes), who hates Topper because of the loss of his father "Mailman" to Buzz Harley, and believes Topper may do the same to him.
Meanwhile, Block starts privately meeting with an airplane tycoon, Mr. Wilson, who has recently built a new "Super Fighter" that will make the American pilots superior. Block reveals that he brought back Topper for the reason of making Sleepy Weasel fail. Block would then report that it was the Navy's planes that were the real reason for the mission failure and that they need to be replaced with Wilson's planes. During one of the last training missions, an unfortunate accident between Pete "Dead Meat" Thompson (William O'Leary) and Jim "Wash-Out" Pfaffenbach (Jon Cryer) occurs, leaving Dead Meat dead and Wash Out reassigned to radar operator. Block believes this is enough to convince the Navy to buy new fighters, but Wilson brushes it aside as a "minor incident," and the planes need to fail in combat to take notice.
Meanwhile, Topper starts to show more and more feelings to Ramada, but she is also smitten with Gregory, who believes Topper cannot handle combat pressure. On the carrier U.S.S. Essess, Block reveals the mission to be an attack of an Iraqi nuclear plant and assigns Topper to lead the mission, much to Gregory's chagrin. Meanwhile, Wilson, who is also on board, coerces a crew member to sabotage the planes, putting the pilots' lives at risk. At first, the mission goes according to Block's plan. He mentions Buzz Harley to Topper, who becomes overcome with emotion and unable to lead the mission. Block just starts to call out for the mission to be aborted when Iraqi fighters attack the squadron. All the planes' weapons fail and Block realizes what has happened. He then tells Topper that he saw what really happened with Buzz and Mailman, that Buzz tried to do everything possible to save Mailman, but ended up falling out of the plane, failing in his attempts. Inspired, Topper single-handedly beats the Iraqi fighters and bombs the nuclear plant, despite sustaining heavy damage. Back aboard ship, Block decides that American planes will always be superior with pilots like Topper (and German parts). Wilson's plan is revealed and his standing with the military is lost.
Back in port, Gregory accepts Topper as a great pilot and lets Ramada be with Topper and the two begin a loving new relationship.
Cast [link]
- Charlie Sheen as LT Sean "Topper" Harley
- Cary Elwes as LT Kent Gregory
- Valeria Golino as Ramada Thompson
- Lloyd Bridges as RDML Thomas "Tug" Benson
- Kevin Dunn as LCDR James Block
- Jon Cryer as LT Jim "Wash Out" Pfaffenbach
- William O'Leary as LT Pete "Dead Meat" Thompson
- Kristy Swanson as Kowalski
- Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. as Wilson
- Bill Irwin as Leland "Buzz" Harley
- Ryan Stiles as Dominic "Mailman" Farnum
- Heidi Swedberg as Mary Thompson
- Charles Barkley as Himself
- Bill Laimbeer as Himself
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The film debuted at number one.[3] [4] [5][6] Hot Shots was both a critical and commercial success, grossing over $180 million worldwide[1] and tallying 82% positive reviews on review-collection website Rotten Tomatoes.[7][8]
References [link]
- ^ a b c "Hot Shots! at Box Office Mojo". https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=hotshots.htm. Retrieved 2007-12-23.
- ^ "Top 10 Spoof Movies at IGN.com". https://movies.ign.com/articles/861/861640p1.html. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
- ^ Fox, David J. (1991-08-27). "Weekend Box Office : List-Toppers Are Listless". The Los Angeles Times. https://articles.latimes.com/1991-08-27/entertainment/ca-1886_1_weekend-box-office. Retrieved 2011-01-13.
- ^ Cerone, Daniel (1991-08-06). "Weekend Box Office : 'Terminator 2' Surrenders Top Spot". The Los Angeles Times. https://articles.latimes.com/1991-08-06/entertainment/ca-693_1_weekend-box-office. Retrieved 2011-01-02.
- ^ Fox, David J. (1991-08-13). "In the Wake of 'Terminator 2,' a Slow Season : Box office: With three weeks to go in the summer, it appears there will be no records set. But it may yet prove to be the third-best summer on record.". The Los Angeles Times. https://articles.latimes.com/1991-08-13/entertainment/ca-909_1_box-office/2. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
- ^ Fox, David J. (1991-08-20). "Weekend Box Office : The Summer Doldrums Continue". The Los Angeles Times. https://articles.latimes.com/1991-08-20/entertainment/ca-1498_1_weekend-gross. Retrieved 2011-01-02.
- ^ Turan, Kenneth (1991-07-31). "MOVIE REVIEW : 'Hot Shots!' Breaks the Laff Barrier". The Los Angeles Times. https://articles.latimes.com/1991-07-31/entertainment/ca-341_1_hot-shots. Retrieved 2011-01-02.
- ^ "Hot Shots! at Rotten Tomatoes". https://au.rottentomatoes.com/m/1036179-hot_shots/. Retrieved 2007-12-23.
External links [link]
- Hot Shots! at the Internet Movie Database
- Hot Shots! at Box Office Mojo
- Hot Shots! at AllRovi
- Hot Shots! at Rotten Tomatoes
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Hot Shots (Canadian TV series)
Hot Shots was a Canadian television drama series, which aired on CBS in the United States in 1986, and CTV in Canada in 1987.
The series, produced by CTV for the CBS Late Night block of crime drama series, starred Dorothy Parke and Booth Savage as Amanda Reed and Jake West, crime journalists for the tabloid magazine Crime World. The cast also included Paul Burke, Clark Johnson, Heather Smith, and Mung Ling.
Only thirteen episodes of the show were produced. Its producers went on to create Diamonds the following year.
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Hot Shots (U.S. TV series)
Hot Shots is an American shooting sport TV-series produced by Creative Fuel Media for the NBC Sports Network, which follows well known shooting personalities both on and off the range, including Jerry Miculek, Clint Upchurch, KC Eusebio and Max Michel.
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Hot Shots (dance companies)
The Hot Shots is a collective name for two closely related Swedish dance companies based in Stockholm, Sweden: The Rhythm Hot Shots and the Harlem Hot Shots. The Hot Shots specialize in faithful reproductions of African-American dance scenes in American films from the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. Dances that they perform include Lindy Hop, Tap dance, Cakewalk, Charleston, and Black Bottom. The members of the Hot Shots are also respected dance instructors and accomplished social dancers. The goals of The Rhythm Hot Shots and the Harlem Hot Shots are the same.
On 6 May 2005, all of the current and previous members of the Hot Shots celebrated 20 years by performing "20 Years With the Hot Shots" at Södra Teatern in Stockholm.
The Rhythm Hot Shots
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