Out Cold (2001 film)

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Out Cold
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Directed by	Brendan Malloy Emmett Malloy
Written by	Jon Zach
Starring	Jason London Lee Majors Zach Galifianakis Derek Hamilton Willie Garson
Music by	Michael Andrews
Cinematography	Richard Crudo
Editing by	Jeffrey Wolf
Distributed by	Touchstone Pictures
Release date(s)	November 21, 2001
Running time	89 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$11,000,000 (estimated)
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Out Cold is a 2001 comedy film about a group of snowboarders in Alaska. It is the first feature film by the music video directing team The Malloys.

1 Plot
2 Characters
3 Cast
4 Soundtrack
5 External links

[edit] Plot

This comedy, directed by Brendan and Emmett Malloy, covers the lives of snowboarding buddies Rick (Jason London), Luke (Zach Galifianakis), Anthony (Flex Alexander) and Pig Pen (Derek Hamilton) who are living large in their beloved hometown of Bull Mountain in Alaska. Partying hard, looking for girls, and doing just about anything to have a good time is what life on Bull Mountain is all about. But when town founder Papa Muntz dies, his son Ted (Willie Garson) decides to sell the mountain to slick Colorado businessman John Majors (Lee Majors). Nobody supports his plans to turn the mountain into an "espresso-and-tofu" ski resort, and it's up to Luke, Pig Pen, Anthony, Jenny (played by A. J. Cook), Rick and the others to keep Bull Mountain yuppie free. Once they realize John's purchase will change the town drastically they, along with Major's beautiful, rebellious daughters, Inga (Victoria Silvstedt) and Anna (Caroline Dhavernas), try to sabotage the purchase with humorous results.

The movie presents itself as something of a parody of 1980's "ski school" movies.

Bull Mountain may have been loosely based on Deer Valley, UT which has a large bronze statue of Olympic Slalom gold medalist Eric Stein at its base area. The pose of Muntz is a satirical image of Eric Stein. Ironically Deer Valley is one of the three ski areas (Alta Ski Area, Mad River Glen, Deer Valley) left in the United States that doesn't allow snowboarding.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Characters

Rick Rambis is one of the more normal residents of Bull Mountain, a Bull Mountain employee, the unofficial leader of his group of friends, and the "King of the Mountain" title holder for the last several years. His dream is to build a lift to the top of Bull Mountain's tallest point (called Hangman's Peak), which he believes will turn Bull Mountain into one of the most popular ski areas in the country. He is also still pining over Anna, whom he had a brief romance with during a vacation to Cancun, Mexico.
John Majors is a slick, assertive businessman from Colorado who wants to buy Bull Mountain and turn into a yuppie resort town similar to Aspen, Colorado.
Jenny is an attractive, down to earth snowboarding instructor and one of the only women in town. She has a romantic interest in Rick but knows that he won't be any good for her until he gets over Anna.
Luke is Rick's best friend and the older brother of Pig Pen. Luke has a habit of drinking until he passes out, which often results in him being the target of pranks by those who are still standing.
Pig Pen is Luke's younger brother and possibly the stupidest man in town. Although he has a schoolboy crush on Inga, he is too clumsy and awkward to express it properly.
Anthony is another of Rick's friends and a pitifully bad snowboarder. He never fails to crash whenever he attempts to snowboard.
Lance is the effeminate bartender of the local tavern.
Anna is John Majors' daughter and the woman who left Rick heartbroken when she unexpectedly left him in Cancun. When she shows up at Bull Mountain, she throws Rick's life into turmoil.
Inga is Majors' other daughter and Anna's step sister. A tall, gorgeous, busty blonde, she becomes an object of lust to virtually all the men of Bull Mountain.
Eric Montclare is a widely-disliked senior employee of the ski area who becomes one of Majors' top lackeys when the plans to sell the resort are announced.
Papa Muntz is the late founder and late owner of Bull Mountain. He founded the town after winning the property in a game of Poker from a bunch of drunken Eskimos.
Ted Muntz is Papa Muntz's only son and the current owner of Bull Mountain. He plans to sell the mountain to Majors and move to the tropics.
Stumpy is a hard-drinking, tall-tale telling, possibly insane barfly who often makes outrageous claims about his own accomplishments (such as the claim that he invented snowboarding). He warns Rick and the gang not to trust Majors.