Hot on the go

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Movie
German title Hot on the go
Original title Hot to Trot
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1988
length 83 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Michael Dinner
script Stephen Neigher
Hugo Gilbert
Charlie Peters
Andy Breckman
production Wendy Finerman
Steve table
music Danny Elfman
camera Victor J. Kemper
cut Frank Morriss
Dallas Puett
occupation

Hot to Trot is a US comedy film from the year 1988 .

action

After his mother dies, Fred P. Cheney has to take over the family brokerage business with his wicked stepfather, Walter Sawyer, who tries to drive him out of business. Don, a talking horse that he inherited and that gives him tips on how to trade on the stock exchange, helps him with this. Since this goes well at first, he wins the recognition of the beautiful stockbroker Allison Rowe.

However, towards the end of the film, Cheney loses everything due to a bad investment and has to put Don in a horse race to regain his money and reputation.

production

The main role was originally supposed to be played by Joan Rivers , but she canceled, so that Bobcat Goldthwait took over for her.

Test screenings flopped so much that the film was initially put on hold. The producers then decided to cut the audio speech acts originally spoken by Elliott Gould for the horse from the film and have Andy Breckman rewrite the dialogue parts (Breckman was not mentioned in the credits). The rest of the film remained unchanged, and the new audio track for the horse was recorded by John Candy , who is said to have improvised the new dialogue parts.

Reviews

The film proved to be a major letdown, both financially and with critics. In 1989 he was nominated for the Golden Raspberry in five categories (Bob Goldthwait as the worst actor, Michael Dinner as the worst director, "Don" as the worst new film star, the worst film and the worst script).

Rita Kempley wrote in the Washington Post that the film was an unbridled disaster, such a lame screwball nonsense that one would like to relieve it of its suffering (“'Hot to Trot' is an unbridled disaster, a screwball horseplay so lame you want to put it out of its misery. ”) and also an insulting rip-off from Mr. Ed and Francis the Talking Mule (“ (…) insulting rip-off of that classic crackup Mr. Ed and his progenitor, Francis the Talking Mule ”).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WFMUs LCD 19, 1997
  2. ^ Rita Kempley: 'Hot to Trot' , in: Washington Post , August 27, 1988.