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Over the Top

Name: Over the Top
Director: Menahem Golan
Genre: Action, Drama
Released: 1987
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Robert Loggia, Susan Blakely, Rick Zumwalt, David Mendenhall

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.

1987 · Directed by Menahem Golan · 94 min · Action · Drama · 10 frames

Tagline

Some fight for money... Some fight for glory... He's fighting for his son's love.

Crew

Screenplay: Stirling Silliphant, Sylvester Stallone
Cinematography: David Gurfinkel
Edited by: James R. Symons, Don Zimmerman
Music: Giorgio Moroder
Production design: James L. Schoppe
Produced by: Yoram Globus, Menahem Golan

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
Terry Funk as Ruker
Bob Beattie as Announcer
Allan Graf as Collins
Magic Schwarz as Smasher

Production

Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studios: The Cannon Group, Warner Bros. Pictures, Golan-Globus Productions
Budget: $25,000,000
Box office: $16,057,580
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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