Snowboard Academy is a 1997 independent slapstick comedy film, starring Corey Haim, Jim Varney and Brigitte Nielsen. A competition is held between two brothers on their father's ski slopes one is a skier the other a snowboarder. The competition would determine if snowboarders could be allowed to be a part the ski patrol. The film was co-written and produced by the then 26 year old Rudy Rupak to be both a videogame and movie. The script, written by Rupak and James Salisko, was considered too edgy and made reference to things like X games and extreme sports. Columbia Pictures however toned down... what would have been a PG-13 movie into a PG one given the pressures of an election year when Bob Dole was bent on chastising Hollywood for its alleged immorality. Scenes like peeing onto skiers from a chair lift, and skating on a blunt shape board were scrapped. Rupak's efforts to sell a videogame based on Snowboarding never materialized. Two years later, Coolboarders became one of the hottest selling video games of the year.
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| Release date: | 1996 |
| Directed by: | John Shepphird |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 88 Minutes |
| Producer: | Rudy Rupak |
| Music by: | Ross Vannelli |
| Screenplay by: | Rudy Rupak, James Salisko |
| Genre: | Comedy |