Over the Top

1987 94 min Action, Drama

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.

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IMDb 5.9 RT 32 Metacritic 40

budget $25,000,000 earnings $16,057,580 return 0.6x

director Menahem Golan

writers Sylvester Stallone, Stirling Silliphant, Gary Conway, David Engelbach

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