Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- secret mission
- bad luck
- parody
- drill instructor
- jet crash
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Charlie Sheen
Topper Harley / Rhett Butler / Superman
Cary Elwes
Kent Gregory
Valeria Golino
Ramada Thompson / Scarlett O'Hara / Lois Lane
Lloyd Bridges
Admiral Benson
- Kevin Dunn — Lt. Commander Block
- Jon Cryer — Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach
- William O'Leary — Pete 'Dead Meat' Thompson
- Kristy Swanson — Kowalski
- Efrem Zimbalist Jr. — Wilson
- Bill Irwin — Buzz Harley
- Heidi Swedberg — Mrs. 'Dead Meat' Thompson
- Bruce A. Young — 'Red' Herring
- Ryan Stiles — 'Mailman' Farnham
- Rino Thunder — Owatonna 'The Old One'
- Mark Arnott — Rosener
- Directed
- Jim Abrahams
- Written
- Jim Abrahams, Pat Proft
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 2,534 ratings
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1991 · You’re hereHot Shots!
Where it starts.
Hot Shots! Part Deux
1993
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
