Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 88 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
Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team—who went in to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm.
- rescue
- swordplay
- liberation of hostage
- secret agent
- parody
- iraq war
- near east
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Charlie Sheen
Topper Harley
Lloyd Bridges
President Thomas 'Tug' Benson
Valeria Golino
Ramada Rodham Hayman
Richard Crenna
Col. Denton Walters
- Rowan Atkinson — Dexter Hayman
- Miguel Ferrer — Commander Arvid Harbinger
- Brenda Bakke — Michelle Rodham Huddleston
- Jerry Haleva — Saddam Hussein
- David Wohl — Gerou
- Mitchell Ryan — Gray Edwards
- Michael Colyar — Williams
- Ryan Stiles — Rabinowitz
- Rosemary Johnston — Lavinia Rodham Benson
- Ben Lemon — Team 2 Leader
- Buck McDancer — Richard Nixon
- Directed
- Jim Abrahams
- Written
- Jim Abrahams, Pat Proft
Production
- Rating
- 6.5 / 10 · 2,133 ratings
- Studio
- Sidley Wright & Associates, 20th Century Fox
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1991Hot Shots!
Where it starts.
Hot Shots! Part Deux
1993 · You’re here
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.
