Snowboard Academy is a 1997 independent slapstick

Slapstick

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 comedy

Comedy

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 film, starring Corey Haim

Corey Haim

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, Jim Varney

Jim Varney

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 and Brigitte Nielsen

Brigitte Nielsen

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Plot summary

A competition is held between two brothers on their father's ski slopes one is a skier the other a snowboarder. The competition would determine if snowboarders could be allowed to be a part the ski patrol.

Production

The film was co-written and produced by the then 26 year old Rudy Rupak to be both a videogame and movie. The script, written by Rupak and James Salisko, was considered too edgy and made reference to things like X games and extreme sports. Columbia Pictures however toned down what would have been a PG-13 movie into a PG one given the pressures of an election year when Bob Dole was bent on chastising Hollywood for its alleged immorality. Scenes like peeing onto skiers from a chair lift, and skating on a blunt shape board were scrapped. Rupak's efforts to sell a videogame based on Snowboarding never materialized. Two years later, Coolboarders became one of the hottest selling video games of the year. Rupak went on to create two more forgettable movies before moving onto software and then eventually becoming the founder of Planet Hospital Inc, the world's largest medical tourism company.