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Over The Top Details

1986 Certificate PG
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  • 60
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Big-rig trucker Lincoln Hawk's (Sylvester Stallone) only chance for a better existence, which includes starting his own business and earning the love of his son, lies in his considerable talent for arm-wrestling. Read more

Starring Sylvester Stallone, Robert Loggia, Susan Blakely, David Mendenhall
Director Menahem Golan
Genres Action/Adventure, Thriller

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Over The Top

Big-rig trucker Lincoln Hawk's (Sylvester Stallone) only chance for a better existence, which includes starting his own business and earning the love of his son, lies in his considerable talent for arm-wrestling.

Starring Sylvester Stallone, Robert Loggia, Susan Blakely, David Mendenhall
Director Menahem Golan
Studio MGM ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 29 mins
Certificate Certificate PG
Genres Action/Adventure, Thriller
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 03 May 2004
Production year: 1986
Format DVD
  • Critics' reviews (3) of Over The Top

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  • 2 stars out of 5

    Dating from the post-Rambo period when Sylvester Stallone's career was in the doldrums, this tacky action adventure has its roots in that old Wallace Beery classic The Champ. Here, boxing is replaced by arm wrestling, as trucker Sly tries to re-establish a relationship with his military academy-trained son on a make-up or break trek across the States. The grapple scenes are so devoid of thrills that you long to return to the mushy melodramatics. It's slick enough, but you expect more from a script co-written by Stallone and the late Stirling Silliphant, who won an Oscar for his work on In the Heat of the Night.

    • Radio Times
  • Machismo with schmaltz. Stallone plays some dumb trucker, into arm-wrestling, whose cab is a mobile gym. Twelve years... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
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  • 7 out of 10 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    good film

    this is a really good movie

      • A customer from scotland
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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

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    Rated - 3 stars

    ... and the oscar for most annoying kid in a film goes to...

      • AC444 from Plymouth
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