Hot Shots!
The mother of all movies.
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.
- Director
- Jim Abrahams
- Signature
- Action · Craft · Humour
- Worldwide
- $181M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
29 billed performers
The Nutevio profile
Movie DNA
How Hot Shots! actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
Story overview
What It's About
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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.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Hot Shots! returned 7.0× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $26M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $181M
- Release date
- Jul 31, 1991
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- MPAA rating
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- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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