Over the Top (1987) on Netflix
Lincoln Hawk drives a long-haul truck and arm wrestles for extra cash. His estranged wife, hospitalized with heart disease, asks him to collect their son Michael from military school.
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- IMDb5.9/1066,157 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes32%
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Plot summary
Ten years ago Lincoln Hawk walked out on his wife and son. He makes a living driving a long-haul truck and arm wrestling for extra cash on the side. Now Christina, in the hospital with heart disease, wants their son Michael brought home from military school so that father and boy can get to know each other. Christina's wealthy father, Jason Cutler, believes Hawk has no place in his grandson's life, and Michael treats him with distrust and contempt. The two drive from Colorado toward California, and Hawk has the World Armwrestling Championship in Las Vegas in view, where the prize money could set him up with a trucking company of his own.
Cast
- Bruce Wayas Grizzly
- Jimmy Keeganas Big Boy - Richie
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Over the Top (1987)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- John Wetton, lead singer of the rock group Asia, sang "Winner Takes It All" for the movie, but his voice was felt not to be "mean" enough, so the track went to Sammy Hagar, whose version featured a bass solo by his then-Van Halen bandmate Eddie Van Halen.
- World armwrestling champions John Brzenk, Cleve Dean, Scott Norton, Allen Fisher, John Vreeland and Andrew "Cobra" Rhodes all make cameo appearances in the film, with Rhodes playing the referee of the final match.
- In May 1984 it was reported that Sylvester Stallone would appear in the film for a fee of $12 million; Cannon Films presold the movie over the next few years, during which Stallone appeared in Rhinestone, Rambo: First Blood Part II and Rocky IV.
- Stallone later said he would have made the film "less glossy" and set it more in an urban environment, used scored music instead of "a never-ending stream of rock songs", and made the event in Vegas "more ominous - not so carnival-like".
- At the 8th Golden Raspberry Awards in 1988 David Mendenhall won two awards, Worst Supporting Actor and Worst New Star, while Stallone was nominated for Worst Actor and lost to Bill Cosby for Leonard Part 6.
- Sammy Hagar says that Stallone gave him his black cap at the end of the shoot; both men signed it and the cap went to charity, where it fetched around $10,000.
