Hot Pursuit

Hot Pursuit (1987)

She promised him ten days together in paradise. He never dreamed how far he'd have to go.

High school student Dan Bartlett misses the plane he was supposed to be on with his rich girlfriend and her family on the way to a Caribbean vacation during a school break. He flies there alone, and runs into a series of characters and misadventures as he tries to catch up.

Date of release
1987-05-08
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (102)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Steven Lisberger

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: British Columbia

Hot Pursuit is a 1987 American action comedy film directed by Steven Lisberger, written by Lisberger and Steven Carabatsos, and starring John Cusack, Robert Loggia, Wendy Gazelle, Jerry Stiller and Ben Stiller.

Production

Pierre David developed the project with Steve Lisberger. David brought it to Tom Mankiewicz, who helped produce. RKO Pictures were willing to back the film but they only wanted to pay $2.8 million and filmmakers could not get the budget lower than $4 million. Mankiewicz managed to secure the additional funding from Ned Tanen at Paramount Pictures in exchange for cable rights.

Anthony Michael Hall was considered for the lead before the filmmakers decided to go with John Cusack.

The scenes at Dan's school ("Burnham preparatory school for boys") were filmed at St. Michaels University School in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. A "Victoria Taxi" logo is visible on the cab that Dan takes to the airport.

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