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Director:
Peter Markle
Writer:
Mike Marvin (writer)
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Release Date:
13 January 1984 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Tagline:
Taste the sauce in...HOT DOG more
Plot:
Naive corn-pone skiing wunderkind picks up beautiful hitchhiking bimbo on way to ski competition. Once... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Campy silliness on skis more (31 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

David Naughton ... Dan O'Callahan
Patrick Houser ... Harkin Banks
Tracy Smith ... Sunny
John Patrick Reger ... Rudolph 'Rudi' Garmisch
Frank Koppala ... Squirrel Murphy

James Saito ... Kendo Yamamoto

Shannon Tweed ... Sylvia Fonda
George Theobald ... Slasher
Mark Vance ... Heinz Hartman
Erik Watson ... Fergy
Lynn Wieland ... Michelle

Sandy Hackett ... T-Shirt Contest M.C.
Crystal Smith ... Motel Clerk
Peter Vogt ... Fader Black
Robert Fuhrmann ... Rick Lauter
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Additional Details

Runtime:
96 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Filming Locations:
Squaw Valley, California, USA
Company:
Hot Dog more

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Factual errors: The plot includes the awarding of a gold medal at Lake Placid to a freestyle skier. The Winter Olympics at Lake Placid took place in 1980. Freestyle skiing wasn't even an Olympic demonstration event until the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. Mogul skiing was added as an official medal event at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, and the aerials event was added for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. more
Quotes:
Squirrel Murphy: Hey, Garnshit!
Rudy: [correcting him] Garmisch.
Squirrel Murphy: Yeah, Garnshit.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Robin Williams/James Taylor (#13.9)" (1988) more
Soundtrack:
Top Of The Hill more

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7 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
Campy silliness on skis, 1 March 2006
6/10
Author: pbhai from United States

Previous entries have trashed this movie, as though it aspired to compete at Cannes and fell woefully short. Lighten-up. This movie was clearly made as a low-budget retread of the time honored "underdog overcomes arrogant favorite" and "boy-meets-girl, boy loses girl, boy wins back girl" themes played out on skis. Think Caddyshack with snow. Is it cheesy? You bet. Is it sophomoric? Certainly. Is it more fun than any other non-Warren Miller ski movie? No doubt. If you want a fun, sometimes silly, mindless ski movie, well, go no further. If you want a "highbrow" skiing movie, well, good luck, no one's made one yet. If you want painful, self important preposterousness try watching Aspen Extreme. Now there's a ski movie with delusions of grandeur. At any rate, Hot Dog never takes itself seriously, and if it suffers for it's gratuitous nudity and simple-minded plot, well, it isn't the first, and won't be the last. But it certainly never pretends to be anything other than what it is - campy low-budget fun with some good non-choreographed ski scenes. Disclaimer: If you don't ski, don't love skiing, or never lived in a ski-town for a season, some of this movie's "charm" may be lost on you.

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