Hot Shots! (1991)

Director
Jim Abrahams

Main cast
Charlie Sheen; Cary Elwes; Valeria Golino; Lloyd Bridges; Kevin Dunn

Genres
Action, Comedy, War

Description
Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino and Jon Cryer co-star in director Jim Abrahams' (Airplane, Naked Gun) truly hilarious spoof of Top Gun. Recruited to join a top-secret mission for the Air Force, a renegade pilot (Sheen) finds himself coping with an incompetent admiral (Bridges) and a carefully selected squadron of flyers who are either inept or half-blind.


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