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12 October 1990 (USA) moreTagline:
Film Noir Like You've Never Seen. morePlot:
A loner (Johnson) drives into a small Texas town and gets himself a job at a used car dealership. He... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
A few words of praise moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Don Johnson | ... | Harry Madox |
 | Virginia Madsen | ... | Dolly Harshaw |
 | Jennifer Connelly | ... | Gloria Harper |
 | Charles Martin Smith | ... | Lon Gulick |
 | William Sadler | ... | Frank Sutton |
 | Jerry Hardin | ... | George Harshaw |
 | Barry Corbin | ... | Sheriff |
 | Leon Rippy | ... | Deputy Tate |
| Jack Nance | ... | Julian Ward |
| Virgil Frye | ... | Deputy Buck |
| John Hawker | ... | Uncle Mort |
| Margaret Bowman | ... | Woman at Gas Station |
| Debra Cole | ... | Irene Davey |
| Karen Culley | ... | Cowgirl |
| Cody Haynes | ... | Cowboy |
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Also Known As:
Ardente Sedução (Portugal) [pt]Forró nyomon (Hungary) [hu]
Hot Spot (France) [fr]
Hot Spot - Um Local Muito Quente (Brazil) [pt]
Hot Spot - kuumat paikat (Finland) [fi]
Kafta simeia (Greece) [el]
Labios ardientes (Spain) [es]
Loc fierbinte, Un (Romania) [ro]
The Hot Spot - Spiel mit dem Feuer (Germany) [de]
The hot spot - il posto caldo (Italy) [it]
Zona caliente (Argentina) [es]
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130 minCountry:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Iceland:16 | Portugal:M/16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Germany:16 | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | Canada:RMOVIEmeter: 
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Mike Figgis was originally scheduled to direct with Elisabeth Shue in a lead role. The collaboration was not to be, however, but Figgis remembered Shue when casting for Leaving Las Vegas (1995) moreQuotes:
[after having sex in a car lot]Dolly Harshaw: That was more fun than eating cotton-candy barefoot.
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Referenced in Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003) moreSoundtrack:
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This film is great. The atmosphere, heat, casting, setting, plot, you name it. Everyone in the film is sweating up to the eyeballs, constantly mopping their brows, with stains all over their clothes, looking very hot and tense indeed. The seeds for a necessary release are sown! And sure enough, the pressure reaches boiling point and everything erupts. I don't want to give too much away, nor can I be bothered writing a proper commentary but this film is BLEAK in it's honesty with respect to it's (secondary/primary?) plot - all ideals are shattered: romance and (true?) love, freedom (whatever that really is) and so on. Some would call this a cynical work, I'll call it realistic - Sod's Law applies as heavily in the movie as it does in real life. Go on Dennis, more of this please!!