Snowboard Academy

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.

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.

Trivia

• Corey Haim and Brigitte Nielsen were both in The Double 0 Kid.
• Was shot in February 1996 north of Montreal in the Laurentian Mountains.
• Was referenced on Arrested Development when Maeby Funke makes a movie called Snowboarding School, starring Jamie Kennedy.
• The movie is currently #59 on the IMDb's Worst 100 List.

References

External links

• Snowboard Academy at the Internet Movie Database
• Fast Getaway trailer at Videodetective.com
• Fast Getaway trailer at NY Times

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