| Hot Stuff | |
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Dom DeLuise |
| Written by | Michael Kane Donald E. Westlake |
| Produced by | Mort Engelberg |
| Starring | Dom DeLuise Suzanne Pleshette Jerry Reed |
| Cinematography | James Pergola |
| Edited by | Neil Travis |
| Music by | Patrick Williams |
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Hot Stuff is a 1979 American action crime comedy film[1][2] starring Dom DeLuise, Suzanne Pleshette, Jerry Reed and Ossie Davis. DeLuise also directed the film (the only film where he did so), and the song "Hot Stuff" was written and performed by Reed.
Miami police detectives Ernie, Louise, Ramon, and Doug (played by DeLuise, Pleshette, Avalos, and Reed), frustrated at their inability to convict the criminals they arrest, decide to set up a sting[3] as a fencing operation to trap criminals in a pawn shop, recording the illegal transactions on the (then) new technology of portable VHS videotape cameras.
With less than helpful support from their captain (Davis), the trio decides to re-sell some of their stolen items to stay in business.[4] Trouble follows as they run afoul of the local mob boss. Doug sees his car destroyed by a bomb (and laments "I just had it washed"), he and the others have a shootout with gun runners at a waterfront condominium construction site, and they ultimately arrest the criminals en masse at a party.
Mostly filmed in 1978,[5] in South Beach, Miami Beach, in the South of Fifth neighborhood, including Española Way.[6]
Ernie Fortunato's (Dom DeLuise) family is played by Dom DeLuise’s actual wife and children.[7]
The script was co-written by best-selling crime novelist Donald E. Westlake.[8]
Movie critic Roger Ebert gave the film two and a half out of four stars and said:
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