Hot to Trot

Hot to Trot (1988)

"When I talk, you're gonna laugh yourself hoarse."

Fred P. Chaney receives as inheritance after the death of his mother a speaking horse that also has good knowledge about the stock-market. With the help of this horse Fred gains a lot at the stock-market of Chicago.

Date of release
1988-08-26
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (60)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Michael Dinner

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 5

Hot to Trot is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Michael Dinner, written by Hugo Gilbert, Stephen Neigher, Charlie Peters and Andy Breckman and starring Bobcat Goldthwait, Virginia Madsen, Jim Metzler, Dabney Coleman and the voice of John Candy. It follows Fred Chaney, an investment broker who teams up with Don, a talking horse who helps him make smart investment tips.

Production

After the success of Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Warner Bros. Pictures offered the film to Tim Burton, who turned it down. In an interview in 2011, Bobcat Goldthwait said that he got the script for Hot to Trot and wrote "Why would I do this?" on the cover, to which his manager responded by writing a dollar sign.

The original cast for the film included Joan Rivers in Goldthwait's role Fred Chaney. Elliott Gould was the original voice of Don the horse. After a poor test screening of the film, Don's half of the script was rewritten by future Monk creator and executive producer Andy Breckman in an effort to make the film funnier.

John Candy was hired to re-record Don's voice; he ignored the new script and improvised the dialogue instead. Originally scheduled for theatrical release in the fall of 1987, Warner Bros. pushed it back to Memorial Day weekend 1988, as a result of the poor test screenings, before ultimately opening it on August 26, 1988, over a year after filming was completed.

The film was released on VHS in 1989, followed by a reissue in 1991, then another in 1998 as part of the "Warner Bros. Hits" collection. It is available on DVD as a manufactured on demand release through the Warner Archive Collection.

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