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Hot to Trot is a comedy film released in 1988 by Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
. It stars Bobcat Goldthwait
Bobcat Goldthwait

Robert Francis 'Bobcat' Goldthwait is an United States comedian, actor, screenwriter, and film and television director. He is commonly known for his energetic, rabid stage personality, his dark, acerbic humor, and his gruff but high-pitched voice....
 as an investment broker, Dabney Coleman
Dabney Coleman

Dabney Wharton Coleman is an United States actor. He is best known for his abrasive characters and his always present mustache.Biography...
 as the head of the company Bobcat works for and John Candy
John Candy

John Franklin Candy was a Canadian comedian and actor. He rose to fame as a member of the Toronto, Ontario branch of The Second City. Candy died of a heart attack in 1994....
 voices a horse
Horse

The horse is a hoofed mammal, a subspecies of one of seven extant species of the family Equidae. The horse has evolution of the horse over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, odd-toed ungulate animal of today....
 that helps Bobcat's character make smart decisions in investing. The original music score was composed by Danny Elfman
Danny Elfman

Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman is an United States musician, who is famous for composing scores and songs for Tim Burton's films, composing "The Simpsons Theme," and leading the rock band Oingo Boingo as singer/songwriter from 1976 until its breakup in 1995....
. The film's tagline is: "When I talk, you're gonna laugh yourself hoarse." The film was commonly shown on Comedy Central in the 1990s.

Chaney (Goldthwait) inherits a horse named Don from his dead mother.






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Hot to Trot is a comedy film released in 1988 by Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
. It stars Bobcat Goldthwait
Bobcat Goldthwait

Robert Francis 'Bobcat' Goldthwait is an United States comedian, actor, screenwriter, and film and television director. He is commonly known for his energetic, rabid stage personality, his dark, acerbic humor, and his gruff but high-pitched voice....
 as an investment broker, Dabney Coleman
Dabney Coleman

Dabney Wharton Coleman is an United States actor. He is best known for his abrasive characters and his always present mustache.Biography...
 as the head of the company Bobcat works for and John Candy
John Candy

John Franklin Candy was a Canadian comedian and actor. He rose to fame as a member of the Toronto, Ontario branch of The Second City. Candy died of a heart attack in 1994....
 voices a horse
Horse

The horse is a hoofed mammal, a subspecies of one of seven extant species of the family Equidae. The horse has evolution of the horse over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, odd-toed ungulate animal of today....
 that helps Bobcat's character make smart decisions in investing. The original music score was composed by Danny Elfman
Danny Elfman

Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman is an United States musician, who is famous for composing scores and songs for Tim Burton's films, composing "The Simpsons Theme," and leading the rock band Oingo Boingo as singer/songwriter from 1976 until its breakup in 1995....
. The film's tagline is: "When I talk, you're gonna laugh yourself hoarse." The film was commonly shown on Comedy Central in the 1990s.

Plot

Fred Chaney (Goldthwait) inherits a horse named Don from his dead mother. He discovers Don is a talking horse (he can also speak the language of several other animals), who had belonged to his father. He also discovers Don has a talent for picking out great investments in the stock market. After a couple good tips, Fred is reluctantly given a job as a broker by his stepfather Walter Sawyer (Coleman). After a few disasters, including a bad tip involving poisoned animal feed, the two are left penniless, but with one last chance: to enter Don in a horse race which will win them all Sawyer's prized horses, along with Satin Doll, a beautiful white horse Don has a crush on. Don (having entered the race from the "Pepperidge Farm" stable) wins the race, after a promise of getting his teeth capped spurs extra speed out of him, enabling him to win the photofinish- which showed Don sticking his teeth out over the finish line first. They both get the girl of their dreams and the film finishes happily.

Production

The original cast for the film included Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers

Joan Rivers is an United States comedian, actress, talk show Host , and businesswoman. She is known for her brash manner and loud, raspy voice with a heavy New York dialect....
 in Bobcat Goldthwait
Bobcat Goldthwait

Robert Francis 'Bobcat' Goldthwait is an United States comedian, actor, screenwriter, and film and television director. He is commonly known for his energetic, rabid stage personality, his dark, acerbic humor, and his gruff but high-pitched voice....
's role. Elliot Gould was the original voice of the horse. After a poor test screening of the film, the horse's half of the script was rewritten by future Monk creator and executive producer, Andy Breckman
Andy Breckman

Andy Breckman is a writer. He is the creator and executive producer of the television series Monk on the USA Network.Breckman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania....
, in an effort to make the film funnier. John Candy
John Candy

John Franklin Candy was a Canadian comedian and actor. He rose to fame as a member of the Toronto, Ontario branch of The Second City. Candy died of a heart attack in 1994....
 was hired to re-record the horse's voice; he ignored the new script and improvised
Improvisation

Improvisation is the practice of acting, singing, talking and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment and inner feelings....
 the dialogue instead.

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