Hot Rod
Rod Kimble, a talented but unlucky stuntman, who struggles against collecting money, in order to save the life of his stepfather, who needs a transplant, but incidents come to inspire him, as he receives help from his good friends, who stand by him, and his beloved, Denis, the thing that supports him a lot.
19 September 1957, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
25 August 1976, Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
5 January 1970, Los Angeles, California, USA
21 January 1991, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
4 May 1970, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1996, Canada
5 April 1982, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
15 October 1956
1 December 1977, Berkeley, California, USA
29 December 1976, Statesboro, Georgia, USA
29 September 1942, Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK
3 February 1976, Muscat, Oman
31 October 1970, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
16 March 1952, Oakland, California, USA
19 March 1977, Berkeley, California, USA
July 06, 2010
The results are barely worth an illegal download.
January 01, 2009
Oh, Napoleon Dynamite! What have you wrought? [Blu-ray]
December 13, 2008
...comedy is a subjective thing, and what makes one person laugh may simply bore someone else. Hod Rod bored me.
November 15, 2011
A perennial problem with comedy from regular collaborators is that the results feel too much like friends' in-jokes.
August 05, 2007
Started to go bad about the time someone in casting said, "You know what? I'll bet America is just about ready for the comedy stylings of Sissy Spacek."
April 28, 2014
People like me who are fans of sophomoric humor, it's a hoot.
August 03, 2007
Samberg can't carry this, though director Akiva Schaffer supplies some hilarious, Jackass-style wipeouts.
September 01, 2007
If you're looking for plausibility, this is not your movie. If you're looking for laughs, this is not your movie. If you like seeing delusional overgrown adolescents fall down a lot, then this one's for you.
December 18, 2010
Awesomely dumb slapstick is for teens and adults only.
August 09, 2007
We know from the Lazy Sunday bits Samberg's a funny guy, but he doesn't have enough to work with here.
August 03, 2007
Imagine a Stand by Me on wheels, with dialogue spoken by 20-something actors instead of 12-year-olds, and you have the essence of the script.
May 13, 2009
What works, wonderfully, are the falls, the punch-outs (his brawls with Stepdad are brutal throw-downs) and waiting for that next accident to happen.
