Hot Dog... The Movie (1984)

User Rating:

4.1/10   

Director:

Peter Markle

Writer:

Mike Marvin (writer)

Release Date:

13 January 1984 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Taste the sauce in...HOT DOG

Plot:

Naive corn-pone skiing wunderkind picks up beautiful hitchhiking bimbo on way to ski competition. Once...

Plot Keywords:

Skiing | Party | Contest | Female Nudity

US TV Schedule:

Thur. Nov. 12	3:00 AM	SHOW
Sun. Nov. 15	2:30 AM	SHOW

Cast

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

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Iceland:14 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | USA:R | Philippines:R-18

Filming Locations:

Squaw Valley, California, USA

Company:

Hot Dog

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.

Quotes:

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

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Robin Williams/James Taylor (#13.9)" (1988)

Soundtrack:

Top Of The Hill

Campy silliness on skis

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.