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Hot Shots! is a 1991 comedy spoof film starring Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, Kevin Dunn, Jon Cryer and Ryan Stiles. It was directed by Jim Abrahams, and was written by Abrahams and Pat Proft. Carrying the same comedic vein as Airplane!, a film Abrahams co-directed, the film primarily spoofs the 1986 action film Top Gun, but also draws material from films like Rocky and Superman. It spawned a sequel in 1993, Hot Shots! Part Deux. Sheen and Cryer would later co-star in the television series Two and a Half Men, in which Stiles also went on to play a recurring role.

  • Number of Movies: 2
  • Revenue: $314,848,989

Featured Cast

  1. Charlie Sheen

    Charlie Sheen

    Topper Harley, Topper Harley / Rhett Butler / Superman

  2. Lloyd Bridges

    Lloyd Bridges

    Admiral Benson, President Thomas 'Tug' Benson

  3. Cary Elwes

    Cary Elwes

    Kent Gregory

  4. Valeria Golino

    Valeria Golino

    Ramada Rodham Hayman, Ramada Thompson / Scarlett O'Hara / Lois Lane

  5. Richard Crenna

    Richard Crenna

    Col. Denton Walters

  6. Rowan Atkinson

    Rowan Atkinson

    Dexter Hayman

  7. Kevin Dunn

    Kevin Dunn

    Lt. Commander Block

  8. Miguel Ferrer

    Miguel Ferrer

    Commander Arvid Harbinger

  9. Jon Cryer

    Jon Cryer

    Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach

  10. William O'Leary

    William O'Leary

    Pete 'Dead Meat' Thompson

  11. Brenda Bakke

    Brenda Bakke

    Michelle Rodham Huddleston

  12. Jerry Haleva

    Jerry Haleva

    Saddam Hussein

  13. Kristy Swanson

    Kristy Swanson

    Kowalski

  14. Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Featured Crew

  1. Jim Abrahams

    Jim Abrahams

    Writing, Directing

  2. Pat Proft

    Pat Proft

    Writing

July 31, 1991

The gang that created Airplane and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this often hilarious spoof starring Charlie Sheen, who previously only inspired laughs with his personal life. He plays Topper Harley, a fighter pilot with an ax to grind: clearing the family name. He gets involved in a relationship with Valerie Golino, a woman with an unusually talented stomach. But his mission is to avenge his father. Lloyd Bridges, late in his career, revealed an aptitude for this kind of silliness, here as a commander who is both incredibly dim and delightfully accident prone. Directed by Jim Abrahams, the film makes fun of a variety of other films as well, from Dances with Wolves to The Fabulous Baker Boys. It was so successful that they all returned in the sequel, Hot Shots! Part Deux.

May 21, 1993

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.

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