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Hot Shots!
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Hot Shots! is a 1991 American parody and war film directed by Jim Abrahams. The screenplay was written by Abrahams and Pat Proft, who also served as producer. The cast includes Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, and Lloyd Bridges. The movie focuses on aviation and was filmed in San Diego.
The film was produced by 20th Century Studios and distributed by Netflix and Disney+ via video on demand. It has a runtime of 85 minutes and was composed by Sylvester Levay. Hot Shots! was followed by Hot Shots! Part Deux.
Critical assessments include the Bechdel test. Review scores are listed as 6.5 out of 10, 82 percent, and 61 out of 100. The film holds a rating of 6.7 on IMDb and a vote average of 6.6 on TMDb. It had a budget of 26,000,000 and generated revenue of 181,096,164.
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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.
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
Themes
- secret mission
- bad luck
- parody
- drill instructor
- jet crash
- foreboding
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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
- English
- Budget
- $26 million
- Box office
- $181.1 million
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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
- Cast member
- Rino Thunder
- Composer
- Sylvester Levay
- Producer
- Pat Proft
- Production company
- 20th Century Studios
- Cinematographer
- Bill Butler
- Filming location
- San Diego
- Duration
- 82
- FilmAffinity ID
- 774136
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1991-12-19
- title
- Hot Shots!
- distributed by
- Disney+
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 61/100
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Plot
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