Over the Top
“Some fight for money... Some fight for glory... He's fighting for his son's love.”
Premium Crap. CrapScore 71, rated by 1 admin.
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A truck driver's attempt to reconnect with his son becomes inseparable from competitive arm wrestling. The swelling emotion and solemn treatment of turning a cap backwards make this sports drama a wonderfully outsized solution to a family problem.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 7.5/10
- Plot
- 8.5/10
- Effects
- 3.5/10
- Dialogue
- 8/10
- Rewatchability
- 8/10
“A custody dispute settled through the ancient legal art of arm wrestling.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 71
Synopsis and movie facts
Lincoln Hawk a hard-luck big-rig trucker takes us under the glaring Las Vegas lights for all the boisterous action of the World Armwrestling Championship. Relying on wits and willpower, Hawk tries to rebuild his life by capturing the first-place prize money, and the love of the son he abandoned years earlier into the keeping of his rich, ruthless father-in-law.
- Released
- 1987
- Directed by
- Menahem Golan
- Running time
- 94 min
Starring
- Sylvester Stallone as Lincoln Hawk
- Robert Loggia as Jason Cutler
- Susan Blakely as Christina Hawk
- Rick Zumwalt as Bob "Bull" Hurley
- David Mendenhall as Michael Cutler/Michael Hawk
- Chris McCarty as Tim Salanger
- Terry Funk as Ruker
- Bob Beattie as Announcer
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