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''Out Cold'' is a 2001 comedy film directed by Brendan and Emmett Malloy (credited as "The Malloys"), who are best-known for directing music videos. The film is an extended homage to the classic film ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', and a [[AffectionateParody parody]] of [[TheEighties 1980s]] ski movies.

The story takes place at Bull Mountain, a down-market ski resort in Alaska, and home to a variety of colorful characters. One particular group of these characters is led by Rick Rambis, a symbol of the local culture and an accomplished amateur snowboarder. Upon the death of owner and founder Herbert "Papa" Muntz, his son Ted Muntz inherits ownership of the resort. Having neither the desire nor the wherewithal to run the resort himself, Muntz resolves to sell the business, in spite of his father's wishes for the resort to be run the way he did, with Rambis as his chosen successor.

Muntz introduces his buyer John Majors, a cut-throat businessman and owner of an international chain of ski resorts. Wanting desperately to seal the deal, Muntz agrees to numerous changes that Majors believes his investors will want to see. These include the introduction of uniforms, and an overhaul of the facilities to be more classy, modern, and trendy.

As it becomes clear that the resort Majors is building will bear little resemblance to the Bull Mountain that Rambis knows and loves, he's faced with the choice of managing the mountain the way Majors would have it managed, or quitting in order to defend Papa Muntz's vision and the lifestyle that he and his friends have forged for themselves.

Complicating matters for Rambis is the return of Anna, a French girl with whom Rambis fell in love while vacationing in Cancun, who, as it turns out, is Majors' daughter. He must choose between wooing Anna away from her fiance, and his budding romance with Jenny, a local girl who has been trying for months to get his attention.

Although the film was disliked by critics and was not a box office success, it has become something of a CultClassic in the years since its release, with fans of the film considering it to be one of the best comedies of 2001. It is also popular in the snowboarding community.

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!!''Out Cold'' provides examples of:

* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Papa Muntz won Bull Mountain from its Eskimo owners in a game of poker.
* AffablyEvil: If John Majors likes you he can be a very warm, friendly, and generous person (as seen by the way he treats Rick).
* TheAlcoholic: Luke has a habit of drinking until he passes out, which usually results in him being the target of practical jokes by those still conscious.
** This trope also applies to Stumpy, who at point in the film ''takes a swig of rubbing alcohol'', something that will make you very sick in real life.
* AnticipatoryBreathSpray: Eric does this when Jenny enters the bar at the start of the film.
* ArcWords: Papa Muntz's final toast: "Bull Mountain, don't go changin'!"
* AssShove: In the climax, Luke does this to Eric with one of his snow boots. The irony is lampshaded by Luke, as Eric had threatened to do that to him several times.
* BearsAreBadNews: One morning, Luke wakes up to a very nice feeling...of a polar bear licking his salt covered scrotum.
* BetweenMyLegs: During the hot tub scene.
* BerserkButton: At the end of the film, Ted Muntz [[spoiler:finally gets tired of Majors calling him a retard and attacks him. However, Ted is such a wimp that Majors is unimpressed and comments "You even fight like a retard."]]
* BingeMontage: Happens during the house party, which culminates with Luke and Pig-Pen slow dancing to "All Out of Love" by Air Supply (then Luke passes out and Pig-Pen duct tapes him to the mechanical bull).
* BookEnds: Rick snowboarding Hangman's Peak.
* ButtMonkey: Brothers Luke and Pig Pen take turns.
** Anthony also qualifies. Every time he gets on a snowboard he crashes [[spoiler:until he finally learns to ride at the end of the film.]]
* CaliforniaDoubling: Although set in Alaska, ''Out Cold'' was filmed in British Columbia, Canada.
* CantHoldHisLiquor: Luke, who becomes the butt of practical jokes no less than three times during the movie because he tends to pass out drunk before everybody else.
* CoitusUninterruptus: [[spoiler:When a gondola containing Inga and Pig Pen having sex is unveiled in front of Majors' investors, Pig-Pen just keeps on thrusting until Majors physically pulls him off of Inga.]]
* CloudCuckoolander: Stumpy
--> '''Stumpy''': "I was there! Yep, I was there. It was called the Eighties. Ford was President, Nixon was in the White House and FDR was running this country into the ground. I was bumming in a hole in the wall town in what is now called Utah, when some fellow from Colorado shows up and starts making so called 'improvements'. Before you knew it, [[VillainousGentrification the streets were running with lattes]]. It got so bad that a guy that like to smoke a little grass, drink a little ripple, crow like a rooster, maybe challenge the mayor's son to a gentleman's duel, was considered uncouth, against God."
** Later on, he's the go-to guy to know what to do when a character gets [[NoodleIncident stuck in a jacuzzi water inlet.]]
* CoolCar: Rick drives a classic Dodge Charger... with a snowplow on the front.
* CoolOldGuy: Papa Muntz
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: [[spoiler:Inga agrees to have sex with Pig-pen because, in her own words, "Nothing would piss off my stepfather more."]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Jenny and Majors.
* DistractedByTheSexy: During the King of the Mountain competition, Jenny flashes her boobs at Pig Pen to make him wipe out.
* TheDitz: Pig-Pen.
* DoYouWantToCopulate: Pig Pen to Inga near the end.
* DrowningMySorrows: When Anna shows up in Bull Mountain Rick goes home and drowns his sorrows in a bottle of Wild Turkey bourbon, completely forgetting that he was supposed to meet Jenny for a date.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: Pig Pen's real name is Pierre.
* EroticDream: Pig-Pen has a dream where he's a James Bond-esque secret agent who rescues the Solid Gold Dancers from a disabled tram. He is awoken when Rick and Luke stumble upon him dry-humping a bench in his sleep.
* EuropeansAreKinky: Played straight with Inga [[spoiler:and subverted when she walks out on Luke before they have sex because she's sleepy.]]
* EveryScarHasAStory
-->'''Inga''': "Where did you get these scars?"
-->'''Luke''': "Well, let's see... skateboard, truck accident, and a fire hydrant."
-->'''Inga''': "I bet each one has its own exciting story, no?"
-->'''Luke''': "No, not really; I skateboarded off a truck into a fire hydrant."
* ExactWords: Eric ''really'' should have chosen his phrasing better than "Go to the bathroom in the cup" when dealing with [[TheStoner Pig-pen]].
* ExtremeSportsPlot: A comedy example rather than an action film, but even so, the plot primarily serves the snowboarding scenes and the jokes.
* FakeShemp: When Jenny flashes her bra at Pig-Pen during the King of the Mountain competition, it's very obvious that a body double (who has at least two cup sizes on Jenny) was used.
* FictionalCounterpart: Majors Resorts seems to be based on Vail Resorts; they both have reputations for buying ski areas and turning them into luxury tourist destinations, much to the disappointment of the locals.
* FirstGirlWins: Chronologically, this is true neither in regards to Anna vs Jenny nor with Rick vs Barry.
* GeniusDitz: Despite the fact that Pig-pen is extremely stupid, he's actually quite clever when it comes to playing practical jokes on Luke.
* {{GIRL}}: Pig Pen pretends to be a lesbian as he chats with someone he believes to be a hot chick, but is, in fact [[spoiler: Eric Montclare]].
** Of course, seeing as Pig Pen was in a ''lesbian'' chat-room, he was pulling the same thing.
* GoingCommando: Discussed by Rick and Anna when they're dancing and she's wearing a sheer evening gown.
-->'''Rick:''' You're not wearing underwear.
-->'''Anna:''' You can't with this dress.
-->'''Rick:''' Your excuse is better than mine.
%%* GroinAttack: "Warning: Do not insert foreign objects into jets"
* HandicappedBadass: Barry, a former competitive snowboarder who became a doctor and a pilot after being disabled. Shows up at the end to whisk Anna away from the resulting chaos he helped Rick and company cause when they unleashed the HumiliationConga on John Majors.
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Lance.
* HilariousOuttakes: The film ends with a sequence of them, most notably Zach Galifianakis ad-libbing various metaphors for his testicles.
--> '''Luke''': These pants are cramping my Literature/HardyBoys. It's no mystery.
* {{Homage}}: Of ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' in the end.
* HotTeacher: Jenny is a snowboarding instructor for children, and at least one of her students has a crush on her.
* HumiliationConga: Majors gets a BRUTAL one at the end of the film. [[spoiler: He's last seen trapped in an outhouse that's hanging upside-down from a tree]].
* HypocriticalHumor
-->'''Luke''': Guys! A little sensitivity here. God! Can't you see this is a dejected man? Well, Rick get your dejected head out of your ass.
* InventionPretension: In a deleted scene, Stumpy claims to have invented snowboarding.
* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: Anna's fiance Barry is shades of Type B, being a former X-Games competitor and now a doctor and a pilot, he's simply too nice and cool for Rick and his friends to hate, despite the relationship resulting from his presence.
* JerkAss: John Majors and Eric Montclair, who is a brown-nosing sycophant to Majors and an anal-retentive dick to everyone else.
* LampshadeHanging: When Rick asks everyone if they remember Papa Muntz's last toast, Luke says in a deadpan voice, "No, tell us."
* LiteralAssKicking: Eric gets a snowboarding boot [[AssShove stuck in his ass]] thanks to it.
** This was after he'd threatened to put his boot up Luke's ass numerous times - the {{irony}} was lampshaded by Luke.
* LocalHangout: The El Matador bar.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Happened between Rick and Anna when they were in Mexico.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Rick is too busy pining for [[TheOneThatGotAway Anna]] to notice Jenny, who is single, more down to earth, and much more interested in him.
* LoveTriangle: Rick is in love with Anna (who is engaged), and Jenny is interested in Rick.
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: When the BigBad prepares to take ownership of the resort in a ceremony attended by his investors, he unveils a mock-up of one of the new gondolas, wherein he finds Pig Pen having sex with his step-daughter Inga.
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: The opening narration has Stumpy comparing Bull Mountain to a woman, then switching over to a discourse on skiing injuries that has nothing to do with women, then ending on a note that would make his soliloquy a good comparison of a woman to the mountain, but making absolutely no sense the other way around
* MsFanservice: Inga. The fact that they cast a former Playboy Playmate of the Year for the character should be a dead give away.
* ElNinoIsSpanishForTheNino: "Carpe the diem! Seize the... carp!"
** "Welcome to El Matador. It's Spanish for... the Matador."
* TheObiWannabe: Pig-Pen.
-->'''Rick Rambis''': Pig Pen, when I want advice about a good ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' film or maybe how to get the resin out of my bong I'll come to you ok? But I am not gonna take romantic advice from somebody who cannot spell "romantic" ''or'' "advice"... or bong.
* TheOneThatGotAway: Anna.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Majors, who calls Ted Muntz a "retard" nonstop, and he also refers to Barry as "Captain Cripple" at one point.
* TheQuisling: Eric.
* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler:At the end of the film, Rick and Jenny officially become a couple rather than just being friends.]]
* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Anna is torn between two men: Rick, who works as a mid-level employee at a downmarket ski resort, and Barry, who is a doctor and a pilot. [[spoiler:Unusual for this trope, she ends up with Barry, the rich suitor.]]
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: [[spoiler:When Rick finds out that Majors fired his friends, he quits his high-paying job as manager of Snownook and leads the effort to sabotage the sale of the mountain. Similarly, Ted Muntz decides that he's sick of Majors verbally abusing him and disrespecting Papa's legacy, so he cancels the sale of the mountain.]]
* SerialSpouse: {{Lampshaded}} by Anna, who states that her stepfather is a modern day Napoleon, marrying his way across Europe (Majors' first wife was English, Anna's mom is French, and Inga is Swiss).
-->'''Majors''': And I just hired a Russian girl trainer, so watch out!
* ShoutOut
** A character named "[[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Pig Pen]]"? That's not hard to figure out.
** The following:
--->'''Luke''': "First rule of King of the Mountain: [[Film/FightClub We do not]] ''[[Film/FightClub talk]]'' [[Film/FightClub about King of the Mountain]]!
** And also:
--->'''Jenny''': "On my mark, [[Film/{{Gladiator}} unleash Hell!]]
** Towards the end of the movie as Anna is walking away, the back of her jacket reads [[Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan OSI]].
** When Rick's friends decide to leave what Bull Mountain is becoming, Barry offers to fly them out. [[Film/StarWarsANewHope "I can take you as far as Anchorage. You can get rides from there to wherever."]]
** And of course, the many references to ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''.
* {{Slobs Versus Snobs}}: Or blue-collar snowboarders versus snooty, upper-class skiiers.
* SmugSnake: Eric Montclair.
* SpaghettiKiss: Part of Rick and Anna's FallingInLoveMontage during the {{flashback}} scene to Cancun.
* StatuesqueStunner: Fanservice character Inga is played by Creator/VictoriaSilvstedt, who stands at 5'10" tall.
* TheStoner: Pig-Pen.
-->'''Pig-Pen''': I don't need a test to tell you I do drugs.
* StuckOnASkiLift: Pig Pen, while sleeping on the job, [[ImagineSpot dreams]] that he's a Film/JamesBond-style action hero, charged with rescuing the Solid Gold Dancers, who are trapped in a stalled gondola. Cut to reality, where Rick and Luke are actually stuck in a gondola as they wait for Pig Pen to wake up and let them out.
* SupportingLeader: Although Ted Muntz is the owner of Bull Mountain, Rick is the most respected employee of the ski resort and the one everybody looks to for leadership. Majors picks up on this quickly, and starts grooming Rick to become his second-in-command.
* TalkativeLoon: Stumpy, who constantly spouts off rants and anecdotes that are self-contradictory, nonsensical, or otherwise insane.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch:
-->'''John Majors''': "That's a three hundred dollar hat, bitch!"
* ThoseTwoGuys: Luke and his brother, Pig-pen.
* TokenMinority: Anthony.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: When Majors takes over Bull Mountain and turns it into "Snownook", a snooty, Aspen-like resort.
* TwoPersonPoolParty: [[spoiler:Luke and Inga have the hot tub variant until she gets tired and goes home, much to Luke's disappointment.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: "So we have a few bad apples! So my daughter's a whore! This is a heck of a deal!"
* VillainousGentrification: The driving motivation to stop Mr. Majors' takeover of the mountain.
* WildTeenParty: After being turned away from the local bar because of a private party being held inside, the locals of Bull Mountain decide to throw a rather wild house party.
* WomanlinessAsPathos: The film drew ''heavy'' inspiration from ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' in regards to its LoveTriangle, as Rick and Anna had hit it off in Cancun, but she's engaged to Barry, who's a professional snowboarder-turned-doctor and pilot after an accident left him a HandicappedBadass. Rick, unaware of this, had spent ''months'' [[TheLostLenore mooning over her departure]] at the start of the movie - which [[DeconstructedTrope his friends call him out on]], as he'd known her for all of a few ''weeks''.
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