Hot Dog…The Movie
3.8 /10 1 Votes
29% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Comedy, Romance, Sport Producer Edward S. Feldman Writer Mike Marvin | 4.7/10 IMDb Initial DVD release August 5, 2003 Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date January 13, 1984 (1984-01-13) Cast (Dan O\'Callahan), (Sylvia Fonda), Patrick Houser (Harkin Banks), Tracy Smith (Sunny), John Patrick Reger (Rudolph \'Rudi\' Garmisch), (Kendo Yamamoto)Tagline There\'s more to do in snow than ski. Similar Wet Hot American Summer, Van Wilder, Up the Creek (1984 film) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hot Dog…The Movie is a comedy ski film released in January 1984. The film went on to gross over $17 million and became one of the iconic comedies of the 1980s.
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Plot
The film stars Patrick Houser as Harkin Banks, a young and ambitious freestyle skier from Idaho who is determined to prove himself in a freestyle skiing competition at Squaw Valley. Along the way he teams with a pack of fun-loving incorrigibles who called themselves the "Rat Pack" (whose leader, Dan O'Callahan is played by David Naughton), picks up an Austrian nemesis named Rudi (John Patrick Reger), and enters a love triangle with a pair of blondes, a young woman named Sunny (Tracy N. Smith) and the more mature Sylvia Fonda (played by 1982 Playboy Playmate of the Year Shannon Tweed in just her second major film role). The movie ends with a terrific extended race scene, all of the characters take part in a 'Chinese Downhill' to determine the real champion of the competition.
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Reception
Janet Maslin, writing in the New York Times, gave a generally positive review, describing the film as "light and less moronic than it might have been."
