Hot Resort

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Hot Resort
Hot Resort poster.jpg
Directed byJohn Robins
Screenplay byJohn Robins
Boaz Davidson
Norman Hudis
Story byPaul Max Rubenstein
Produced by Yoram Globus
Menahem Golan
StarringTom Parsekian
Michael Berz
Bronson Pinchot
Dan Schneider
Marcy Walker
Debra Kelly
Samm-Art Williams
Frank Gorshin
CinematographyFrank P. Flynn
Edited byDory Lubliner
Brent Schoenfeld
Production
companies
Distributed byCannon Group
Pan-Canadian Film Distributors
Release date
  • January 1985 (1985-01)
Running time
92 minutes
CountriesUnited States
St Kitts and Nevis
LanguageEnglish

Hot Resort is a 1985 comedy film directed by John Robins and starring Bronson Pinchot, Dan Schneider, Marcy Walker and Samm-Art Williams. [1] [2] It was shot on St Kitts with an American cast and crew.[ citation needed ]

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Plot

Several young American men go to St Kitts for a summer job at a resort hotel, hoping to earn money for college and meet women. They clash with a group of wealthy Ivy League rowers there to film a soup commercial.

Production

Hot Resort was filmed on an Arriflex 35BL camera and 35 mm film, on location at the Royal St Kitts Hotel, St Kitts. [3] [4] [5]

Reception

The Blockbuster Video Guide to Movies and Videos described it as a "cold sophomoric comedy." [6] Leonard Maltin rated Hot Resort a "bomb" and gave it a "D". [7]

In the Radio Times , Keith Bailey gave it one star, saying "There's not much in the way of humour in this teen comedy […] Poor old Frank Gorshin wanders in and out of the virtually plotless story, while Bronson Pinchot shows none of the comic talent that would later make him famous." [8]

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