Over the Top

Title:

Over the Top

Genres:

Action , Drama

Companies:

The Cannon Group, Warner Bros. Pictures, Golan-Globus Productions

Countries:

United States of America

Release Date:

1987-02-13

Runtime:

Languages:

English

Status:

Released

Tagline:

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

Budget:

$25000000

Revenue:

$16057580

Overview

Sylvester Stallone stars as hard-luck big-rig trucker Lincoln Hawk and 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.

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Sylvester Stall

Lincoln Hawk

Robert Loggia

Jason Cutler

Susan Blakely

Christina Hawk

Rick Zumwalt

Bob "Bull" Hurley

David Mendenhal

Michael Cutler/Michael Hawk

Chris McCarty

Tim Salanger

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Movie Reviews

GenerationofSwine

I guess someone at Canon sat down and said "You know what, there are not enough movies about arm wrestling out there, we can pin the market on it." And they kind of did, I have never seen a movie about arm wrestling since... or before. In fact, this is the only one. But, it also as a decent soundtrack in an 80s action flick kind of way. And, it tells a good story about a kid trying to re-connect with his father, who is a truck driver... and an arm wrestler. And it manages to do it all in a very entertaining way, given the fact that it's about what a sport that you would think could only be boring, but the film manages to make look exciting... and I still have no idea how they did it using really nothing but a montague, and a typical 8os montage at that. But, hey, it actually works, so take that where you will... and watch it, because it's really a lot better than anyone would think.