![]() In 2016, Bakke appeared in guest starring roles in episodes of Heartbeat and Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders. ![]() In 2015, she began appearing in the recurring role of Virginia in the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera If Loving You Is Wrong. She spent the following years playing guest star roles in episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, NYPD Blue, The Mentalist, and Supernatural. In 2000s, Bakke continued appearing in films, playing roles in smaller movies, such as The Quickie and Moving August. In 1999, she returned to television with the role of the lead character's mother in the short-lived Fox drama series, Ryan Caulfield: Year One. In 1997, Bakke appeared as Lana Turner in the neo-noir mystery crime film, L.A. ĭuring the 1995-96 television season, she was a regular cast member in the CBS horror series, American Gothic alongside Gary Cole. Pictures provided by: antp, garco, I-Denev. Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. In 1995, she appeared as Cordelia the prostitute in Ernest Dickerson's Demon Knight, and as Captain Linda Gilder in Under Siege 2. The following year, she played the female leading role in the action-comedy film, Gunmen. In 1993, Bakke starred as Michelle Huddleston in the comedy film Hot Shots! Part Deux, where she played a spoof on Sharon Stone's character ( Catherine Tramell) from Basic Instinct and romantic interest of Charlie Sheen. In later years, she had a number of roles in low-budget genre movies, such as Gunhed, Solar Crisis, and The Medium. She made her screen debut in the 1986 movie Hardbodies 2, and the following year, guest starred in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. After graduating in 1981 from Sunset High School, near Beaverton, Oregon, she moved to Los Angeles to study acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Confidential.īakke was born in Klamath Falls, Oregon, and began her acting career in a Portland stage production of Years Ago at age 15. She is best known for her roles in 1990s films Hot Shots! Part Deux, Gunmen, Demon Knight, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, and L.A. And, unlike many films, gets better with repeated viewing.Brenda Jean Bakke (born May 15, 1963) is an American actress and real estate broker. Not as good as HOT HOTS or the AIRPLANE movies, it is still well worth seeing. ![]() Late in the film, the action really heats up when the President (played wonderfully once again by Lloyd Bridges) has a final showdown with Hussein.and the film degenerates into the weirdest takeoff on TERMINATOR II that you can imagine! Overall, the plot is mostly stupid and irrelevant-which is exactly what you'd expect from such a film! This is because the plot is only an excuse for stringing together many jokes and while some of the great intellectuals out there may hate this sort of film, you can't deny that it makes you laugh.unless you LIKE Saddam Hussein! The film misses about as often as it hits, but still with so many jokes this is still a crowd pleaser. The major difference in this film is the inclusion of a new major character, Saddam Hussein! He is ridiculed repeatedly and comes off as an effeminate oaf. It's somewhat jarring seeing Atkinson and Charlie Sheen act alongside each other, as they have such different styles. RELATED: 10 Movies From The 90s That Made Us Laugh So Hard We Cried. Some of the parodied films include LADY AND THE TRAMP, CASABLANCA and NO WAY OUT. A parody of both Apocalypse Now and Rambo, there was no better movie to bring Rowan Atkinson into the Hollywood spotlight than Hot Shots Part Deux. Here in PART DEUX, the story is essentially RAMBO II along with many other movie references as well. Martin Sheen in Hot Shots Part Deux After The Naked Gun and Airplane successfully claimed the comedic box office, the tiger-blooded Charlie Sheen decided to win in the parody genre with Hot Shots that poked fun at action films like Top Gun and Rambo. In HOT SHOTS, the film is basically a take off on TOP GUN-with many other movie references thrown in as well. That's because even more than the original, the jokes come so rapid fire that if one falls flat (as many do), there is no doubt a good laugh coming only moments later. : Hot Shots: Part Deux : Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino, Jim Abrahams: Movies & TV Movies & TV Blu-ray Movies STREAM ANYTIME 1999 Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime FREE Returns FREE delivery Monday, March 20 if you spend 25 on items shipped by Amazon Or fastest delivery Friday, March 17. However, this is not to say this sequel is bad-it still maintains an excellent pace and will make you laugh. Sheen reprises his role as Topper Harley, macho American hero extraordinaire. In Jim Abraham's Hot Shots Part Deux, the satirical aim at Top Gun in the first film is targeted on the shoot-em-up Rambo movies instead. The original HOT SHOTS was a fabulous film and was more polished and fresh than this remake. His more recent hits include Two and a Half Men and Anger Management until 2014.
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