{{Infobox film | name = Hot Resort | image = Hot Resort poster.jpg | alt = | caption = | native_name = <!-- {{Infobox name module|language|title}} or {{Infobox name module|title}} --> | director = John Robins | writer = | screenplay = John Robins<br>Boaz Davidson<br>Norman Hudis | story = Paul Max Rubenstein | based_on = <!-- {{Based on|title of the original work|creator of the original work|additional creator(s), if necessary}} --> | producer = Yoram Globus<br>Menahem Golan | starring = Tom Parsekian<br>Michael Berz<br>Bronson Pinchot<br>Dan Schneider<br>Marcy Walker<br>Debra Kelly<br>Samm-Art Williams<br>Frank Gorshin | narrator = | cinematography = Frank P. Flynn | editing = Dory Lubliner<br>Brent Schoenfeld | music = | studio = The Cannon Group, Inc.<br>Golan-Globus | distributor = Cannon Group<br>Pan-Canadian Film Distributors | released = {{film date|1985|01}} | runtime = 92 minutes | country = United States<br>St Kitts and Nevis | language = English | budget = | gross = }} '''''Hot Resort''''' is a 1985 comedy film directed by John Robins and starring Bronson Pinchot, Dan Schneider, Marcy Walker and Samm-Art Williams.<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Video Hound's Golden Movie Retriever, 1991|author1=Weiner, D.J.|author2=Thomson Gale|date=1991|publisher=Visible Ink|isbn=9780810394049|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4azirDJX73cC|access-date=2022-01-31}}</ref><ref name="google2">{{cite book|title=Media Review Digest|date=1987|volume=16|publisher=Pierian Press|isbn=9780876502266|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q3dFAQAAIAAJ|access-date=2022-01-31}}</ref> It was shot on Saint Kitts with an American cast and crew.{{cn|date=February 2024}}
==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 Saint Kitts Hotel, Saint Kitts.<ref name="timescaribbeanonline">{{cite web|url=http://www.timescaribbeanonline.com/st-kitts-filmmaker-nigel-trucapo-premiers-solo-directorial-debut-at-the-american-black-film-festival/|title=St.Kitts Filmmaker Nigel "TruCapo' Lewis Premiers Solo Directorial Debut at the American Black Film Festival|website=Times Caribbean Online|access-date=2022-01-31}}</ref><ref name="cinematografo">{{cite web|url=https://www.cinematografo.it/cinedatabase/film/vacanze-calde/25334/|title=Vacanze Calde |website=Cinematografo|access-date=2022-01-31}}</ref><ref name="google3">{{cite book|title=On Location: Cinema and Film in the Anglophone Caribbean|author=Warner, K.Q.|date=2000|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=9780333792117|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mZAaAQAAIAAJ|access-date=2022-01-31}}</ref>
==Reception== The ''Blockbuster Video Guide to Movies and Videos'' described it as a "cold sophomoric comedy."<ref name="google4">{{cite book|title=Blockbuster Video Guide to Movies and Videos 1995|author1=Castell, R.|author2=Blockbuster Entertainment|date=1994|publisher=Dell|isbn=9780440217664|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gBtFE92NTK0C|access-date=2022-01-31}}</ref> Leonard Maltin rated ''Hot Resort'' a "bomb" and gave it a "D".<ref name="google5">{{cite book|title=Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide|author=Maltin, L.|date=1998|publisher=Plume|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YyMIAQAAMAAJ|access-date=2022-01-31}}</ref>
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."<ref name="radiotimes">{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/b-90fn0x/hot-resort/|title=Hot Resort (1985)|website=Radio Times|access-date=2022-01-31}}</ref>
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==External links== {{Wikiquote}} *{{IMDb title|0089305}} *{{YouTube|tfuOcwTr_aA|Entire film}}
Category:1985 comedy films Category:Films set in Saint Kitts and Nevis Category:Films shot in Saint Kitts and Nevis Category:Golan-Globus films Category:Films produced by Yoram Globus Category:Films produced by Menahem Golan Category:Films set in hotels Category:1985 English-language films Category:Films with screenplays by Boaz Davidson