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Snowboard Academy

  • Director: John Shepphird
  • AMG Rating: starstar
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Movie Type: Slapstick
  • Themes: Nothing Goes Right
  • Main Cast: Joe Flaherty, Jim Varney, Corey Haim, Brigitte Nielsen
  • Release Year: 1997
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 90 minutes
  • MPAA Rating: PG

Plot

This goofy low-budget comedy follows a group of maverick misanthropes as they try to save the struggling title school from financial ruin. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Cast

Joe Flaherty; Daniela Akerblom; Andreas Apergis; Paul Hopkins

Credit

Patrice Vermette - Art Director, Claude Castravelli - Co-producer, John Shepphird - Director, Richard Comeau - Editor, David Gil - Executive Producer, Stephen R. Greenwald - Executive Producer, Carole Caillancourt - Line Producer, Bruno Philip - Cinematographer, Rudy Rupak - Producer, Rudy Rupak - Screenwriter, James Salisko - Screenwriter

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Snowboard Academy
Directed by John Shepphird
Produced by Rudy Rupak
Written by Rudy Rupak
James Salisko
Starring Corey Haim
Jim Varney
Brigitte Nielsen
Ken Lerner
Marcia Strassman
Shelli Lether
Music by Ross Vannelli
Distributed by Columbia TriStar
Release date(s) 1996
Running time 88 min.
Language English

Snowboard Academy is a 1996 independent comedy film, starring Corey Haim, Jim Varney and 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. 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 becoming 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 PlanetHospital Inc, the world's largest medical tourism company.

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