Hot Dog... The Movie (1984)

Naive corn-pone skiing wunderkind picks up beautiful hitchhiking bimbo on way to ski competition. Once at the ski competition he is taunted in the daytime and laid at night, by different ... See full summary »

Director:

Peter Markle

Writer:

Mike Marvin

Stars:

David Naughton, Patrick Houser, Tracy Smith

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

Storyline

Naive corn-pone skiing wunderkind picks up beautiful hitchhiking bimbo on way to ski competition. Once at the ski competition he is taunted in the daytime and laid at night, by different people. Four letter words, stoopid ethnic stereotypes (the Asian skiier's dancing looks like martial arts, of course) and skinny naked women with badly dated hairstyles abound. Not worth seeing except on cable -- the nudity is the big selling point and if you're not embarrassed to rent a movie with this title, you might as well go a little further and rent something honestly labeled as smut, instead of off-and-on nudity masquerading as "comedy."

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Plot Keywords:

idaho | nudity | skiing competition | freestyle skiing | oral sex | 

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Taglines:

There's more to do in the snow than ski.

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance | Sport

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

13 January 1984 (USA)

Also Known As:

Casse-cou en liberté

Filming Locations:

Squaw Valley, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Hot Dog, United Artists

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

Harkin's bindings and skis change during the opening downhill scene. His mostly white Look bindings change to red. And his white Dynastar skis switch to black or dark blue Rossignols. This is most evident when he skis "over" the camera, in a tuck, near the end of the scene.

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Quotes

Squirrel Murphy: Hey, Garnshit!
Rudy: [correcting him] Garmisch.
Squirrel Murphy: Yeah, Garnshit.

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Connections

Referenced in Married with Children: Honey, I Blew Up Myself (1994)

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Soundtracks

"When You Were Mine"
Performed by Mitch Ryder
From the album "Don't Kick A Sleeping Dog"
Cover of a 1980 single by Prince

User Reviews

Crazy Ski Movie....

In reading username farnum's review, I couldn't help but laugh at the memory of David Naughton singing that stupid disco song Makin' It on Solid Gold..."I'm solid gold, I've got the goods"... I didn't know there was anyone out there who still remembers it besides me. I must agree unfortunately that his career definetly peaked with the Pepper Ads, and should probably stick to hocking soda (if that's even still an option for him now).

This movie is guilty of every conceivable error in judgement by the writers, the director, and even the studio who allowed this truly bad 80's flick to be put out. Bad dialogue, bad acting, no discernable plot structure and given that I am a woman, too much T&A...(Exactly how much silicone did they actually PUT into Shannon Tweed anyway)?! Strange woman, she seemed more interested in Sunny than in Harkin. Why couldn't they have had Harkin gliding around naked on his back in that jaccuzzi instead of Shannon? Sunny treated Harkin like crap througout the entire movie. I guess being a hot babe counts enough with some men that they won't require you to have a personality. And that guitar serenade by Harkin to Sunny!! That went beyond embarrassing, to actually being painful for the viewer. Although the movie had some pretty good music in it by Duran Duran and Al Jareau, I found it annoying that they kept rewinding the songs over and over so that the tracks wouldn't finish up before the scene did.

Despite the obvious problems though, I still laughed. I first saw it when it came out on HBO when I was 17, and just caught it again the other day. I found myself laughing in all the same places. I'm not sure what that says about me exactly since I am now a mature professional woman of 35, but it's true. That ski lift scene with the guy who had sunblock on his nose and the little ski bunny was quite memorable (as I'm sure it was for him as well)! I couldn't help but wonder if that sort of thing happens on ski lifts on a routine basis. Being a southern woman who has never made it to the slopes, I wouldn't know. In any event, if you've got any teenager still left in you, you should be able to get through it without feeling as though you've wasted too much of your time. As movies go in general I'd give it a 4 out of 10, but on the laugh scale it goes up to maybe a 7.