Hot Shots!
Directed by	Jim Abrahams
Produced by	Bill Badalato Pat Proft
Written by	Jim Abrahams Pat Proft
Starring	Charlie Sheen Cary Elwes Valeria Golino Lloyd Bridges Jon Cryer Kevin Dunn Bill Irwin
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	July 31, 1991
Running time	84 min.
Language	English
Followed by	Hot Shots! Part Deux
IMDb profile

Hot Shots! is a 1991 comedy spoof which starred Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, Jon Cryer, Kevin Dunn, and Bill Irwin. It was directed by Jim Abrahams, co-director of Airplane!, another parody, and was written by Abrahams and Pat Proft. Image File history File links Hot_Shots. ... Jim Abrahams (born 10 May 1944 in Shorewood, Wisconsin) is an American movie director and writer. ... Pat Proft is a comedy writer and actor. ... Jim Abrahams (born 10 May 1944 in Shorewood, Wisconsin) is an American movie director and writer. ... Pat Proft is a comedy writer and actor. ... Charles Irwin Sheen (born Carlos Irwin Estévez on September 3, 1965) is a Golden Globe Award-winning and Emmy-nominated American actor. ... Ivan Simon Cary Elwes (born October 26, 1962) is an English actor credited as Cary Elwes, best known for his performances in The Princess Bride, Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Saw. ... Valeria Golino in Hot Shots! Valeria Golino (October 22, 1966, Naples, Italy) is an Italian actress. ... Bridges in The Sound of Fury (1950) Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr. ... Jon Cryer (born on April 16, 1965 in New York, NY), is an American actor, writer and producer. ... Kevin Dunn (born February 26, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American character actor who has appeared in supporting roles in a number of films since the 1980s. ... Bill Irwin (born April 11, 1950, Santa Monica, California as William Irwin) is an American actor and clown noted for his contribution to the renaissance of American circus during the 1970s. ... Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the major American film studios. ... July 31 is the 212th day (213th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 153 days remaining. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hot Shots! Part Deux is a 1993 comedy spoof film, and a sequel to the 1991 comedy Hot Shots! Directed again by Jim Abrahams, the film again stars Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino, Richard Crenna, Brenda Bakke, Miguel Ferrer, Ryan Stiles, Rowan Atkinson, and Jerry Haleva. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Parody of Back to the Future In contemporary usage, a parody is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ... Charles Irwin Sheen (born Carlos Irwin Estévez on September 3, 1965) is a Golden Globe Award-winning and Emmy-nominated American actor. ... Ivan Simon Cary Elwes (born October 26, 1962) is an English actor credited as Cary Elwes, best known for his performances in The Princess Bride, Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Saw. ... Valeria Golino in Hot Shots! Valeria Golino (October 22, 1966, Naples, Italy) is an Italian actress. ... Bridges in The Sound of Fury (1950) Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr. ... Jon Cryer (born on April 16, 1965 in New York, NY), is an American actor, writer and producer. ... Kevin Dunn (born February 26, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American character actor who has appeared in supporting roles in a number of films since the 1980s. ... Bill Irwin (born April 11, 1950, Santa Monica, California as William Irwin) is an American actor and clown noted for his contribution to the renaissance of American circus during the 1970s. ... Jim Abrahams (born 10 May 1944 in Shorewood, Wisconsin) is an American movie director and writer. ... Airplane! is an American comedy film, first released on June 27, 1980, produced and directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, and starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Lorna Patterson. ... Pat Proft is a comedy writer and actor. ...

Plot summary

Hot Shots has been described as "Top Gun meets Airplane!". The film begins at Flemner Air Base 20 years ago. A pilot named Buzz Harley loses control of his plane and ejects, leaving his co-pilot Dominic "Mailman" Farnum (Ryan Stiles) to crash alone; although Mailman survives, he is mistaken for a deer owing to the branches stuck to his helmet and is shot by a hunter. Topper Harley (Charlie Sheen) wakes up from a nightmare he has about this event when a Lieutenant Commander (Kevin Dunn) asks him to return to active duty as a pilot in the U.S. Navy. He had previously left the Navy to live with Native Americans. Top Gun is a 1986 American film directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer in association with Paramount Pictures. ... Airplane! is an American comedy film, first released on June 27, 1980, produced and directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, and starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Lorna Patterson. ... Ryan Lee Stiles (born April 22, 1959 in Seattle, Washington) is an Emmy-nominated Canadian-American actor and improvisational comedian. ... The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ... Native Americans, the indigenous peoples from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States, including parts of Alaska. ...

Harley becomes romantically involved with his therapist, a woman named Ramada (Golino), although she is already involved with another top gun pilot (Elwes). He hates Topper because of the loss of his father to Buzz Harley and believes Topper may do the same to him. Amidst the chaos, the owner of an aerospace firm is trying to sabotage the mission in order to make the current fighter jets look bad in hopes that the Navy will replace them with his German-made jets. However, Topper Harley successfully completes the mission to destroy a nuclear power plant despite his jet's malfunctioning armament. Look up aerospace in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... German supply train blown up by the Armia Krajowa during World War II Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy, oppressor or employer through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction. ... A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for attacking other aircraft, as opposed to a bomber, which is designed to attack ground targets, primarily by dropping bombs. ...

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Trivia

• The aircraft used in the movie are Folland Gnats.
• Lloyd Bridges' character mentions that he took a bazooka round at "Little Big Horn" (before correcting himself that the incident actually took place in Okinawa). Bridges starred in a film adaptation of the Battle of Little Big Horn.
• Italian version of the movie featured a bad translation, where most of the puns and jokes were lost or replaced by coarse ones. Over all, the "ten thousand pound thrust" was translated as "una spinta propulsiva di 10.000 sterline," misunderstanding the mass pound and pound sterling. Nevertheless, the film had good success at the box office.
• Topper Harley's first name is Sean, as depicted on his name tag in Ramada's office, and later during the bar scene. The name "Topper Harley" comes from the 1960's Harley-Davidson motor scooter, the Harley Topper.
• The ambulance that takes the character called "Dead Meat" to the hospital starts off as a Ford but arrives at destination as either a Chevrolet or GMC. This is either a blooper or an homage to the TV series Emergency!, which was a popular blooper involving the ambulances.
• The credit scroll includes a list of things to do after the movie and a recipe for baking cookies.
• Cryer and Sheen later starred together in the popular sitcom Two and a Half Men.

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List of movies spoofed

• Top Gun
• 9½ Weeks
• The Fabulous Baker Boys
• Dances with Wolves
• Rocky
• Gone with the Wind
• Superman
• Cool as Ice
• Marathon Man

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Sequel

In 1993, a sequel was released, Hot Shots! Part Deux, which parodied action movies such as Rambo: First Blood Part II. Hot Shots! Part Deux is a 1993 comedy spoof film, and a sequel to the 1991 comedy Hot Shots! Directed again by Jim Abrahams, the film again stars Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino, Richard Crenna, Brenda Bakke, Miguel Ferrer, Ryan Stiles, Rowan Atkinson, and Jerry Haleva. ... Released on Friday, May 24, 1985, the second movie of Rambo, Rambo: First Blood Part II, has Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) released from prison by Federal order to document the possible existence of POWs in Vietnam, under the belief that he will find nothing and the government can sweep the issue...

External links

• Hot Shots! at the Internet Movie Database