Hot Shots! Genre Guide: Story, Cast and Movie Facts

Hot Shots! (1991) — an evergreen reference for this movie: the essentials, the cast, where to watch and what to watch next. The mother of all movies.

Where to watch

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Cast

Charlie Sheen as Topper Harley / Rhett Butler / Superman; Cary Elwes as Kent Gregory; Valeria Golino as Ramada Thompson / Scarlett O'Hara / Lois Lane; Lloyd Bridges as Admiral Benson; Kevin Dunn as Lt. Commander Block; Jon Cryer as Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach; William O'Leary as Pete 'Dead Meat' Thompson; Kristy Swanson as Kowalski

About Hot Shots!

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.

More like Hot Shots!

• Hot Shots! Part Deux
• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• The Naked Gun
• Airplane!
• Johnny English Strikes Again
• Austin Powers in Goldmember
• Airplane II: The Sequel

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