Harkin Banks heads to skiing championships in California. A teen runaway tags along as he parties and competes with friends and foes.Harkin Banks heads to skiing championships in California. A teen runaway tags along as he parties and competes with friends and foes.Harkin Banks heads to skiing championships in California. A teen runaway tags along as he parties and competes with friends and foes.
Mark Costello
- Event Starter
- (as Marc Costello)
- Director
- Writer
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- TriviaJames Saito, who played Kendo, couldn't actually speak Japanese. He fooled the entire crew for the first three weeks. During an interview with Outside magazine in 2016, he said, "At the audition, they asked me if I could speak Japanese. I don't speak any of it, but all the guys at the table were white guys, so I thought they'd never know the difference. I just said any household words in Japanese that I knew from growing up. When I got the part, I had a friend translate my lines. But during the course of the shooting, my part got bigger, and so the director would say, 'Jimmy, can you say this?' And I'd go, 'Uh, yeah, sure. When are we gonna shoot?' And they'd say, 'About 30 minutes.' So I'd ski down to the lodge and call my friend. Every day I had like three Japanese-English dictionaries in my pockets and a whole list of things to say."
- GoofsWhen Dan challenges Rudy to the Chinese Downhill, he states, "Forty bucks a man, winner takes all." At the start of the race, the announcer says that the winner will get $2300. 2300 doesn't divide evenly by 40. Further, only about 26 racers can be seen at the start. That would make the grand total $1040.
- Quotes
[speaking English for the first time]
Kendo Yamamoto: What the fuck is Chinese Downhill?
- Alternate versionsIn the Producer's Cut, Harkin comes back to his motel room feeling sad. He picks up his guitar and starts playing, Sunny (who left him after seeing him in the hot tub with Sylvia while she messed around with Rudi) walks in and he starts singing to Sunny. After he finishes, he asks if she has any requests. She tells him to kiss him on the cheek, they hug and forgive each other. This takes care of a plot hole in the theatrical cut where Sunny does not return to Harkin until the end of the aerials competition, and she starts celebrating with him as if nothing happened between them.
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Crazy Ski Movie....
In reading username farnum's review, I couldn't help but laugh at the memory of David Naughton singing that stupid disco song Makin' It on Solid Gold..."I'm solid gold, I've got the goods"... I didn't know there was anyone out there who still remembers it besides me. I must agree unfortunately that his career definetly peaked with the Pepper Ads, and should probably stick to hocking soda (if that's even still an option for him now).
This movie is guilty of every conceivable error in judgement by the writers, the director, and even the studio who allowed this truly bad 80's flick to be put out. Bad dialogue, bad acting, no discernable plot structure and given that I am a woman, too much T&A...(Exactly how much silicone did they actually PUT into Shannon Tweed anyway)?! Strange woman, she seemed more interested in Sunny than in Harkin. Why couldn't they have had Harkin gliding around naked on his back in that jaccuzzi instead of Shannon? Sunny treated Harkin like crap througout the entire movie. I guess being a hot babe counts enough with some men that they won't require you to have a personality. And that guitar serenade by Harkin to Sunny!! That went beyond embarrassing, to actually being painful for the viewer. Although the movie had some pretty good music in it by Duran Duran and Al Jareau, I found it annoying that they kept rewinding the songs over and over so that the tracks wouldn't finish up before the scene did.
Despite the obvious problems though, I still laughed. I first saw it when it came out on HBO when I was 17, and just caught it again the other day. I found myself laughing in all the same places. I'm not sure what that says about me exactly since I am now a mature professional woman of 35, but it's true. That ski lift scene with the guy who had sunblock on his nose and the little ski bunny was quite memorable (as I'm sure it was for him as well)! I couldn't help but wonder if that sort of thing happens on ski lifts on a routine basis. Being a southern woman who has never made it to the slopes, I wouldn't know. In any event, if you've got any teenager still left in you, you should be able to get through it without feeling as though you've wasted too much of your time. As movies go in general I'd give it a 4 out of 10, but on the laugh scale it goes up to maybe a 7.
This movie is guilty of every conceivable error in judgement by the writers, the director, and even the studio who allowed this truly bad 80's flick to be put out. Bad dialogue, bad acting, no discernable plot structure and given that I am a woman, too much T&A...(Exactly how much silicone did they actually PUT into Shannon Tweed anyway)?! Strange woman, she seemed more interested in Sunny than in Harkin. Why couldn't they have had Harkin gliding around naked on his back in that jaccuzzi instead of Shannon? Sunny treated Harkin like crap througout the entire movie. I guess being a hot babe counts enough with some men that they won't require you to have a personality. And that guitar serenade by Harkin to Sunny!! That went beyond embarrassing, to actually being painful for the viewer. Although the movie had some pretty good music in it by Duran Duran and Al Jareau, I found it annoying that they kept rewinding the songs over and over so that the tracks wouldn't finish up before the scene did.
Despite the obvious problems though, I still laughed. I first saw it when it came out on HBO when I was 17, and just caught it again the other day. I found myself laughing in all the same places. I'm not sure what that says about me exactly since I am now a mature professional woman of 35, but it's true. That ski lift scene with the guy who had sunblock on his nose and the little ski bunny was quite memorable (as I'm sure it was for him as well)! I couldn't help but wonder if that sort of thing happens on ski lifts on a routine basis. Being a southern woman who has never made it to the slopes, I wouldn't know. In any event, if you've got any teenager still left in you, you should be able to get through it without feeling as though you've wasted too much of your time. As movies go in general I'd give it a 4 out of 10, but on the laugh scale it goes up to maybe a 7.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Hot Dog - Der Typ mit dem heißen Ski
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $20,307,325
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,506,756
- Jan 15, 1984
- Gross worldwide
- $20,307,325
- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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