Over the Top

Plot

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.

About Over the Top

Over the Top is a 1987 American sports drama film directed by Menahem Golan, and written by Stirling Silliphant and Sylvester Stallone, who stars as Lincoln Hawk, a long-haul truck driver who tries to win back his estranged son Michael while becoming a champion arm wrestler. 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.

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