Out Cold ** (2001, Jason London, Lee Majors, Willie Garson, Zach Galifianakis, Flex Alexander, David Denman, A.J. Cook) – Classic Movie Review 8858

Four carefree snowboarders take on a big corporation bent on turning their favourite mountain, Bull Mountain, Alaska, into a posh ski resort.

The hot score pounds along directors Brendan Malloy and Emmett Malloy’s surprisingly amiable and tolerable 2001 youth-orientated comedy Out Cold, starring Jason London, Lee Majors, Willie Garson and Zach Galifianakis.

The clichéd plotline could have been avoided with some more inventive writing, but otherwise Out Cold is not too bad a mood-improving time-filler as a teen comedy. The writer is Jon Zack.

Also in the cast are Flex Alexander, David Denman, A.J. Cook, David Koechner, Caroline Dhavernes, Derek Hamilton, Thomas Lennon, Victoria Silvstedt, Todd Richards and Lewis Arquette.

Brendan Malloy and Emmett Malloy are billed as The Malloys.

It is the final film of Lewis Arquette – father of Rosanna Arquette, Patricia Arquette, Alexis Arquette, Richmond Arquette, and David Arquette – who died on 10 February 2001, aged 65.

There is some strong language, crude and sexual humour, and substance abuse.

Out Cold is directed by Brendan Malloy and Emmett Malloy, runs 92 minutes, is made by Touchstone Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment and Donners’ Company, is released by Buena Vista, is written by Jon Zack, is shot by Richard Crudo, is produced by Lauren Shuler Donner, Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, Michael Aguilar and Jonathan Glickman, is scored by Michael Andrews and is designed by Michael S Bolton.

It was shot at Sasquatch Mountain, Hemlock Valley, British Columbia, Canada; Salmo, British Columbia, Canada; and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Despite the Canada filming, it was pretty costly at $24,000,000, and grossed only $13,906,394 in the US, with a cumulative worldwide gross of $14,782,676.

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