Sandy Hackett

Harkin (Patrick Houser) picks up a hitchhiker (Tracy N. Smith) heading to a Lake Tahoe ski resort. Once there, Harkin joins up with a party-loving group of skiers led by Dan (David Naughton), a New Yorker. When the mix of young men and women are not shaking down into couples, attention focuses on the competition with the world ski champ Rudi Garmischt (John Patrick Reger) -- eventually leading to a spectacular sequence of skiing artistry down the snowy slopes, a tour-de-force that rivals scenes from the Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me.

It's all about skin and skiing. Our hero is pure as the driven snow and the best freestyle skier around -- a shoo-in to be the first American to win the world-freestyle title in several years. But he has some stiff competition from a nasty Austrian.

Some of the most exhilarating skiing sequences ever filmed highlight this vigorous comedy about a rag-tag crew of ski maniacs who are ready to race or party at the drop of a beer can. David Naughton and Shannon Tweed star.