Hot to Trot

• Bobcat Goldthwait: Fred P. Chaney
• John Candy: Don ( voice )
• Dabney Coleman: Walter Sawyer
• Virginia Madsen: Allison Rowe

Hot to Trot is an American comedy film from the year 1988.

Action

After his mother's death, Fred P. Cheney must accept the stockbroker family business along with his evil stepfather Walter Sawyer, who wants to push him out of business. In this case, a talking horse, which he has inherited and that gives him tips for stock market transactions helps him Don. As this goes well at first, he gains the recognition of the beautiful stockbroker Allison Rowe.

Towards the end of the film but loses Cheney because of a bad investment all and Don must have to compete in a horse race to recover his money and reputation.

Production

The lead role was originally to be played by Joan Rivers, but canceled so that Bobcat Goldthwait took over for her.

Test screenings flopped so much that the film was put on hold. The producers decided then to cut the originally spoken by Elliott Gould audio speech acts for the horse from the movie and let Andy Breckman rewrite the dialogue parts ( Breckman, however, was not mentioned in the credits ). The rest of the film was unchanged, and the new audio track for the horse was eingesprochen of John Candy, who is said to have improvised but the new dialogue parts.

Reviews

The film proved both in financial terms as well by the critics as a major letdown. For 1989 he was nominated in five categories for the Golden Raspberry (Bob Goldthwait as the worst actor, Michael Dinner as the worst director, "Don" as the worst new movie star, as the worst film and as the worst screenplay).

Rita Kempley wrote in the Washington Post that the film was an unbridled disaster, such a lame screwball nonsense that you want to release him from his suffering ( " 'Hot to Trot ' is an unbridled disaster, a screwball horseplay so lame you want to put it out of its misery. " ) and also an insulting rip-off of Mr. Ed and Francis the Talking Mule ( " (...) insulting rip-off of classic crackup did Mr. Ed and his progenitor, Francis the Talking Mule ").