Hot Tomorrows
title: "Hot Tomorrows" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1977-films", "films-directed-by-martin-brest", "american-student-films", "films-about-death", "1970s-english-language-films"] topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Tomorrows" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::data[format=table title="Infobox film"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Hot Tomorrows |
| director | Martin Brest |
| producer | Martin Brest |
| starring | Ken Lerner |
| Hervé Villechaize | |
| Ray Sharkey | |
| Victor Argo | |
| Oingo Boingo | |
| Orson Welles | |
| cinematography | Jacques Haitkin |
| editing | Martin Brest |
| studio | American Film Institute |
| released | |
| runtime | 72 minutes |
| country | United States |
| language | English |
| :: |
| name = Hot Tomorrows | image = | caption = | director = Martin Brest | producer = Martin Brest | writer = | narrator = | starring = Ken Lerner Hervé Villechaize Ray Sharkey Victor Argo Oingo Boingo Orson Welles | music = | cinematography = Jacques Haitkin | editing = Martin Brest | studio = American Film Institute | released = | runtime = 72 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross =
Hot Tomorrows is a 1977 American Film Institute student film, written and directed by Martin Brest. The film includes appearances from actor Hervé Villechaize and the theatre troupe The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo. Orson Welles provides the voice for a radio ad for a funeral home.
Filming was completed in December 1975 by the then 24 year-old Brest, however it took an additional two years to raise funds required to complete post-production, for a total final budget of $33,000.
Plot
A young New York City writer who has moved to Los Angeles spends his days exploring his obsession with death.
References
References
::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::