Over The Top (1987)

Genre: Drama

Directed by: Menahem Golan

Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Robert Loggia, David Medenhall

Running Time: 93 minutes

Lincoln Hawk is a trucker who competes in arm wrestling competitions on the side. Years prior, he abandoned his wife and kid mostly due to a conflict with his father-in-law. The mother, who ends up in the hospital due to heart problems, asks her estranged husband to pick up their son, who he has never really known, from military school to build a relationship with him. Hawk’s father-in-law, who has been the father figure in the kid’s life all these years, doesn’t want the trucker/arm wrestler to come back into their lives.

This little film about arm wrestling, trucking and fatherhood is a long cheesy rock music video. It was not good when it came out and it has not aged well at all. Still, there is some little twisted redeeming quality in the fact that it is somewhat entertaining in its awfulness.

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