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Over the Top

1987

Menahem Golan

Sylvester Stallone, David Mendenhall, Robert Loggia, Susan Blakely ...

4.8

10,645

Action. Drama Lincoln Hawk (Stallone) is a struggling trucker who's trying to rebuild his life. After the death of his ex-wife, he tries to make amends with his son who he left behind years earlier. Upon their first meeting, his son doesn't think too highly of him until he enters the nation-wide arm wrestling competition in Las Vegas.

	Author	Review
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Tribune	"'Over the Top' is pretty much like all of the other successful Stallone films, which probably means that it will be a success, too. In fact, it`s considerably better than the ragged, recycled 'Rocky IV'"	NEU
United States	Nathan Rabin AV Club	"With 'Over The Top', Stallone had clearly exploited the Rocky formula once too often"	NEU
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"Routinely made in every respect."	NEU
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"The film seems to advocate reason as a good first approach to any problem, and all-out destruction as the next best thing."	NEG
United States	Paul Attanasio The Washington Post	"A movie about arm-wrestling. What's next? Crab soccer?"	NEU

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