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 by	Peter Markle
Written by	Mike Marvin
Produced by	Edward S. Feldman Mike Marvin
Starring	David Naughton Patrick Houser Tracy N. Smith John Patrick Neger Frank Koppola Shannon Tweed
Cinematography	Paul Ryan
Edited by	John Stewart
Music by	Peter Bernstein Mark Goldenberg John Stewart
Production companies	The Hotdog Partnership United Artists Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	MGM/UA Entertainment Co.
Release date	January 13, 1984 (1984-01-13)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2 million[2]
Box office	$17.7 million[3] or $22 million[2]

Plot

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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 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 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

External links

• Hot Dog ... The Movie at IMDb
• Hot Dog... The Movie at AllMovie
• Hot Dog... The Movie at Rotten Tomatoes

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