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Hot Shots!
The 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.
1991 · Directed by Jim Abrahams · 85 min · Action · Comedy · War · 12 frames
Tagline
The mother of all movies.
Crew
- Written by: Jim Abrahams, Pat Proft
- Cinematography: Wilmer Butler
- Edited by: Jane Kurson, Eric A. Sears
- Music: Sylvester Levay
- Production design: William A. Elliott
- Produced by: Bill Badalato
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
- William O'Leary as Pete 'Dead Meat' Thompson
- Kristy Swanson as Kowalski
- Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Wilson
- Bill Irwin as Buzz Harley
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: 20th Century Fox
- Budget: $26,000,000
- Box office: $181,096,164
- Themes: secret mission, bad luck, parody, drill instructor, jet crash
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