Chuck Vincent made a lot of residuals off USA Up All Night. So many of his films played so often on the show that it's an even bigger shame that he died in 1991 from AIDS. He also had a deal with the Playboy Channel, so he was definitely doing well before leaving this planet way too soon.
Vincent started in the adult industry and a lot of the things he learned there would serve him well as he made softcore comedies like this movie. Working from a script by Mark Borde (who also wrote Vincent's Summer Camp and would go on to produce 47 Meters Down and Replicas) and Craig Horrall (Bad Blood, Thrilled to Death), this is the tale of Shawn Wright (Paul Gunning), who has defaced the Hollywood sign so that it now reads Hollyweed. He's forced to choose between work and jail, so he's soon working as a hot tub plumber for his Uncle Al (Stafford Morgan) along with Jeff (Michael Andrew).
The guys end up working for all sorts of weird clients, like an aging movie starlet with a hot tub inside her limousine, a theme park run by organized crime and a porn star. Then they get the chance to work with Pam (Remy O'Neill), who is opening a huge apartment complex. Uncle Al is nervous because he's always just been on the wrong side of going out of business. Success frightens him more than failure.
Shawn falls for co-worker Leslie (Donna McDaniel), but you know how the third act works. She catches him in the hot tub all alone with several nude women. Now her brother Jesse (Rex Ryon) wants to kill him. And his probation officer thinks that Uncle Al can't be a legal business owner, so he wants to send Shawn to jail.
The best part of this movie is Crystal Shepard as Pam's valley girl daughter Crystal who, for some reason, has stars in her eyes for Uncle Al. Never doubt the power of daddy talk, I guess.
There are also roles for Katt Shea, who would go onward and upward, directing her own worthy films like Stripped to Kill, Stripped to Kill 2: Live Nude Girls, Streets, Poison Ivy, The Rage: Carrie 2 and Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase; Edy Williams (Ashley St. Ives herself!); Florence Schuaffuler (Haggis from Pumpkinhead); Becky LeBeau (Not of This Earth, School Spirit) and Tina Blum (Summer Camp Nightmare).
Just the title is good enough, you know? That may be why there was a sequel, Hollywood Hot Tubs 2: Educating Crustal. That was directed by Kenneth Raich - the co-producer of this movie - and luckily had Shepherd return to the role.
Vincent started in the adult industry and a lot of the things he learned there would serve him well as he made softcore comedies like this movie. Working from a script by Mark Borde (who also wrote Vincent's Summer Camp and would go on to produce 47 Meters Down and Replicas) and Craig Horrall (Bad Blood, Thrilled to Death), this is the tale of Shawn Wright (Paul Gunning), who has defaced the Hollywood sign so that it now reads Hollyweed. He's forced to choose between work and jail, so he's soon working as a hot tub plumber for his Uncle Al (Stafford Morgan) along with Jeff (Michael Andrew).
The guys end up working for all sorts of weird clients, like an aging movie starlet with a hot tub inside her limousine, a theme park run by organized crime and a porn star. Then they get the chance to work with Pam (Remy O'Neill), who is opening a huge apartment complex. Uncle Al is nervous because he's always just been on the wrong side of going out of business. Success frightens him more than failure.
Shawn falls for co-worker Leslie (Donna McDaniel), but you know how the third act works. She catches him in the hot tub all alone with several nude women. Now her brother Jesse (Rex Ryon) wants to kill him. And his probation officer thinks that Uncle Al can't be a legal business owner, so he wants to send Shawn to jail.
The best part of this movie is Crystal Shepard as Pam's valley girl daughter Crystal who, for some reason, has stars in her eyes for Uncle Al. Never doubt the power of daddy talk, I guess.
There are also roles for Katt Shea, who would go onward and upward, directing her own worthy films like Stripped to Kill, Stripped to Kill 2: Live Nude Girls, Streets, Poison Ivy, The Rage: Carrie 2 and Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase; Edy Williams (Ashley St. Ives herself!); Florence Schuaffuler (Haggis from Pumpkinhead); Becky LeBeau (Not of This Earth, School Spirit) and Tina Blum (Summer Camp Nightmare).
Just the title is good enough, you know? That may be why there was a sequel, Hollywood Hot Tubs 2: Educating Crustal. That was directed by Kenneth Raich - the co-producer of this movie - and luckily had Shepherd return to the role.