Hot Dog... The Movie (1984)

User Rating:

4.0/10   

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

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
Marc Costello	...	Event Starter
Deborah Dutton	...	Rudette
Anders Stenstadt	...	Rudette
Daniel K. Moore	...	Rudette
Michael Moore	...	Rudette
Linda Briggs McCulloch	...	Rudette
Ami Julius	...	Georgette
M. Lisa Cooper	...	Girl at Party
Lauri Price	...	Girl at Party
Robin Rael	...	Girl at Party
Victoria Rae Walker	...	Girl In Gondola
Gregory Beck	...	Referee
Mike Marvin	...	Downhill Starter
Jim Clark	...	Cowboy at Bar
Ronald Hurley	...	Gas Attendant
Robin Haynes	...	Announcer

Directed by
Peter Markle

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Mike Marvin		writer

Produced by
Edward S. Feldman	....	producer
Christopher W. Knight	....	executive producer
Mike Marvin	....	co-producer

Original Music by
Peter Bernstein
Mark Goldenberg
John Stewart

Cinematography by
Paul Ryan

Film Editing by
Stephen E. Rivkin

Casting by
Hank McCann

Art Direction by
Don De Fina

Set Decoration by
Carl Arena

Costume Design by
Shari Feldman

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Paul Kimatian	....	first assistant director

Sound Department
Ken Beauchene	....	boom operator
Linda Folk	....	sound effects editor
Wolf Seeberg	....	sound mixer

Stunts
Frank Beddor	....	stunts
Jeff Chumas	....	stunts
Max Kleven	....	stunts
Paul Rosenberg	....	stunts
Scott Sproule	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Don Burgess	....	camera operator: second unit
Rick Fee	....	assistant camera (as Richard Fee)

Casting Department
Randee Lynne Jensen	....	casting assistant (uncredited)

Music Department
John Patrick Reger	....	composer: song "Rudi's Victory Song"

Other crew
Lisa Hollingshead	....	production assistant
Leanne Moore	....	production accountant
Patience Thoreson	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• Hot Dog
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributors

• MGM/UA Entertainment Company (1984) (USA) (theatrical)
• MGM/UA Home Entertainment (2003) (USA) (DVD)

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:

Sunny: Rotate outta here, Jack.

Movie Connections:

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

Soundtrack:

When You Were Mine

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.