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Hot Rod is a 2007 American comedy film directed by Akiva Schaffer (in his directorial debut) and written by Pam Brady. The film stars Andy Samberg as amateur accident-prone stuntman Rod Kimble, whose stepfather, Frank (Ian McShane), continuously mocks and disrespects him. When Frank becomes ill, Rod raises money for his heart operation by ...
A Hot rod is a typically American car with a large engine modified for linear speed. Hot Rod may also refer to: Hot Rod, a 1988 arcade game by Sega; Hot Rod, a 1950 American drama film; Hot Rod, an American film; Hot Rod, a film starring Andy Samberg; Hot Rod, an American car magazine
Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref. J A N U A R Y 5: Code Name: The Cleaner: New Line Cinema: Les Mayfield (director); Robert Adetuyi, George Gallo (screenplay); Cedric the Entertainer, Lucy Liu, Nicollette Sheridan, DeRay Davis, Tom Butler, Mark Dacascos, Callum Keith Rennie, Niecy Nash, Will Patton, Kevin McNulty, Beau Davis, Bart Anderson, Robert Clarke
Motor Trend Group, LLC (formerly known as Source Interlink Media and TEN: The Enthusiast Network) is a media company that specializes in enthusiast brands, such as Motor Trend and Hot Rod. Headquartered in El Segundo, California , it was a subsidiary of the TNT Sports division of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) [ 1 ] until being sold to Hearst ...
Akiva Daniel Shebar Schaffer (/ ə ˈ k iː v ə ˈ ʃ eɪ f ər /; [2] born December 1, 1977) is an American writer, producer, director, comedian, actor, and musician. He is a member of the comedy music group The Lonely Island, along with childhood friends Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone.
The song was also included in the soundtrack of the 2007 film Hot Rod, which parodies the punchdance scene with Rod Kimble (Andy Samberg) in a forest. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] More recently, on April 27, 2014, the song was used in " Baby Got Black ", the eighteenth episode of season 12 of Family Guy , with Peter Griffin parodying the Footloose punchdance scene.
Notable performances in film include Kevin Bacon's, as Ren McCormack, in 1984's Footloose, and the parody of it performed by Andy Samberg, as Rod Kimble, in 2007's Hot Rod. Both performances were accompanied by the same song, "Never," by Moving Pictures, written by Michael Gore and Dean Pitchford.
The forerunners to the hotrod were the modified cars used in the Prohibition era by bootleggers to evade revenue agents and other law enforcement. [7]Hot rods first appeared in the late 1930s in southern California, where people raced modified cars on dry lake beds northeast of Los Angeles, under the rules of the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA), among other groups.