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Over the Top
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6.5Lincoln 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.
Cast
- 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
Themes
- underdog
- sports
- bad father-in-law
- father-in-law
- road trip
- truck
- on the road
- truck driver
- arm wrestling
- eighteen wheeler
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Ratings
IMDb
5.9/10
64,693 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
32%
Metacritic
40/100
- Year
- 1987
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Genres
- Action, Drama, Sport
- Rated
- PG
- Awards
- 4 wins & 3 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Menahem Golan
- Screenplay by
- Stirling Silliphant Sylvester Stallone
- Story by
- Gary Conway David C. Engelbach
- Produced by
- Menahem Golan Yoram Globus
- Starring
- Sylvester Stallone Robert Loggia Susan Blakely David Mendenhall
- Cinematography
- David Gurfinkel
- Edited by
- James Symons Don Zimmerman
- Music by
- Giorgio Moroder
- Color process
- Metrocolor
- Production company
- The Cannon Group, Inc.
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros.
- Release dates
- February 12, 1987 ( 1987-02-12 ) (New York and Los Angeles ) February 13, 1987 ( 1987-02-13 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 93 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $25 million
- Box office
- $16,057,580
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 93
- FilmAffinity ID
- 172843
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- publication date
- 1987-02-13
- title
- Over the Top
- review score
- 32%
- capital cost
- 25000000
- box office
- 16057580
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Encyclopedic overview
Over the Top is a 1987 American sports drama film that combines the emotional drama of a child custody hearing with arm wrestling. It stars Sylvester Stallone as Lincoln Hawk, a long-haul truck driver who tries to win back his estranged son Michael while becoming a champion arm wrestler. It was produced and directed by Menahem Golan, and its screenplay was written by Stirling Silliphant and Stallone. Robert Loggia, Susan Blakely, and David Mendenhall are among the supporting cast.
Over the Top was released on February 13, 1987, by Warner Bros. in the United States. The film was a box-office bomb, and received middling reviews from critics but has made a cult following ever since.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Over the Top” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.