Hot Rod

• Comedy
• Action

A relentlessly optimistic and endearingly inept amateur stuntman embarks on a hilariously improbable fundraising mission – a fifteen-bus jump – to save his physically and emotionally distant stepfather, not out of affection, but to finally earn his respect through a promised post-recovery beatdown. Fuelled by a naive belief in his own abilities and the unwavering, though equally misguided, support of his ragtag group of friends, the film unfolds as a purposefully absurd homage to 70s and 80s action cinema. This isn’t about triumphant heroism, but the joyous, spectacularly failed attempts at achieving it, embracing the comforting absurdity of childlike ambition in the face of harsh reality, and ultimately revealing a surprising undercurrent of vulnerability beneath the bravado.