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Three cops try to set up a sting by establishing their own Fencing operation. They have less than complete support from above and as they begin mingling more and more with the underworld elements decide to finance the operation through re-selling some of the proceeds. You can't turn this mob over to the cops. They are the cops. Action Comedy Crime Thriller. Did you know Edit. Trivia Several members of actor-director Dom DeLuise 's family have roles in this film.

Goofs When the '78 or '79 Trans-Am explodes, it is replaced with a early-model Camaro '70 to '73 for the destroyed car. Quotes Doug : Ernie, you want a doughnut? Alternate versions On original 1. On home media and TV, the Academy ratio version is used instead. User reviews 15 Review.

Top review. This is a funny movie. It was way too long in coming to DVD. I bought it for my sons and brother for Christmas. We worn out the VHS copy. The ensemble cast is excellent.

Each character has its unique personality. Very well acted, and it looks like they had a lot of fun making this. Sadly most every one of the main characters are gone now. It does have the repertoire company of Burt Reynolds, but I think it is a better film with this cast then if Burt had taken the lead. I wish Dom DeLuise had made more films.

He became more interested in cooking later in life. He was a very funny man. I used to love him on Johnny Carson. Please take the time to seek out this movie. You'll enjoy it! Details Edit. Release date November 15, Netherlands. United States. Sony Movie Channel United States. The Best Bust of All.

Miami, Florida, USA. Columbia Pictures Rastar Films. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 31 minutes. Related news. This movie is so affectionately wacky we can forgive it for falling short of greatness: It takes so many other falls along the way. Great stretches of it have the rather spare visual invention of one of Jackie Gleason's Joethebartender skits.

Gleason would be standing there and the door, would swing open, and he'd say, "Hiya, pal! How are ya? Come on in. The usual?

In "Hot Stuff," the doors swing open on a police undercover operation. The cops are running a phony hock shop that's a front for a fencing operation. Their master plan: Gain the confidence of all the crooks in town by paying them top prices for their stolen goods. She's stationed behind a oneway mirror with a videotape camera, and tries to get everything on tape as her three partners con the cons. In scene after scene after scene, the door opens, there's the "Hiya, pal! It is easy to imagine this material not working even though the movie is also livened up by explosions, shootouts and a wild party.

Most of the movie's character-building and most of the laughs happen on one set, and repeat the one situation. But the characters are so well-drawn not deeply drawn, just well drawn that we get to like them. DeLuise, directing himself, doesn't indulge himself, and gives a lot of the best lines to his three costars.

There's a rare sense here of basic comic skills, well used. By that I don't mean "Hot Stuff" contains brilliant new comic visions; strictly speaking, it doesn't contain a single original frame. What I mean is that the movie knows the craft of comedy, slapstick, doubletakes, funny lines, eccentric characters.

That's a craft that was mastered in the '30s and '40s. Even in the B and C comedies. Even in the Bowery Boys comedies, which were competently made in their own dumb way.