Hot Shots!
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6.6The gang that created Airplane! and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this spoof. Topper Harley is a talented but unstable fighter pilot with an axe to grind: clearing the family name. His mission is to avenge his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers. He also gets involved in a relationship with Ramada Thompson, a woman with an unusually talented stomach. Hot Shots! makes fun of a variety of other films, from Dances with Wolves to The Fabulous Baker Boys.
Released: 1991-07-3185 minDir: Jim AbrahamsAction, Comedy, War
Cast
- Charlie Sheen as Topper Harley / Rhett Butler / Superman
- Cary Elwes as Kent Gregory
- Valeria Golino as Ramada Thompson / Scarlett O'Hara / Lois Lane
- Lloyd Bridges as Admiral Benson
- Kevin Dunn as Lt. Commander Block
- Jon Cryer as Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Jim Abrahams
- Written by
- Jim Abrahams, Pat Proft
- Produced by
- Bill Badalato
- Starring
- Charlie Sheen Cary Elwes Valeria Golino Jon Cryer Kevin Dunn Bill Irwin Lloyd Bridges
- Cinematography
- Bill Butler
- Edited by
- Jane Kurson , Eric A. Sears
- Music by
- Sylvester Levay
- Production company
- Peter V. Miller Investment Corp.
- Distributed by
- 20th Century Fox
- Release date
- July 31, 1991 ( 1991-07-31 )
- Running time
- 84 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
Key dates
- Published
- 19 December 1991
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- war film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Followed by
- Hot Shots! Part Deux
- Main subject
- aviation
- Director
- Jim Abrahams
- Screenwriter
- Pat Proft
- Composer
- Sylvester Levay
- Producer
- Pat Proft
Article
Hot Shots! is a 1991 American parody film directed by Jim Abrahams, co-writer and co-director of Airplane!, and written by Abrahams and Pat Proft. It stars Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, Jon Cryer, Kevin Dunn, Kristy Swanson, Bill Irwin, and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. The film is primarily a spoof of Top Gun, with some scenes spoofing other popular films, including 9½ Weeks, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Dances with Wolves, Marathon Man, Rocky, Superman, First Blood, and Gone with the Wind. A sequel, Hot Shots! Part Deux, was released in 1993, with Sheen, Golino, Bridges and Jerry Haleva reprising their roles.
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