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, co-director of Airplane! , and was written by Abrahams and Pat Proft. 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. Hot Shots has been described as "Top Gun meets... Airplane!". The film begins at Flemner Air Base 20 years prior. A pilot named Leland "Buzz" Harley loses control of his plane and ejects, leaving his co-pilot Dominic "Mailman" Farnum to crash alone; although Mailman survives, he's mistaken for a deer owing to the branches stuck to his helmet and is shot by a hunter. Topper Harley wakes up from a nightmare he's having about the event when Lt. Commander Block asks him to return to active duty as a pilot in the U.S.
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| Release date: | July 31, 1991 |
| Directed by: | Jim Abrahams |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 84 Minutes |
| Producer: | Bill Badalato |
| Editor: | Jane Kurson, Eric A. Sears |
| Music by: | Sylvester Levay |
| Cinematography: | Bill Butler |
| Screenplay by: | Jim Abrahams, Pat Proft |
| Estimated budget: | $26,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy, Action |