Hot Dog…The Movie


Hot Dog…The Movie is a teen sex comedy ski film released in January 1984. The film went on to gross over $17 million.

Plot

The film stars Patrick Houser as Harkin Banks, a young and ambitious freestyle skier from Idaho who is determined to prove himself in a freestyle skiing competition at Squaw Valley. Along the way he teams with a pack of fun-loving incorrigibles who called themselves the "Rat Pack", picks up an Austrian nemesis named Rudi, and enters a love triangle with a pair of blondes, a young woman named Sunny and the more mature Sylvia Fonda. The movie ends with an extended race scene, all of the characters take part in a "Chinese Downhill" race to determine the real champion of the competition.

Cast

, writing in the New York Times, gave a generally positive review, describing the film as "light and less moronic than it might have been."