Over the Top (Film)

Over the Top is an American action film directed by Menahem Golan from 1987 and was produced by Cannon Films. The film is about a trucker who tries to win back his estranged son and world champion in arm wrestling is. The film's title refers to a technique of this sport, in which an advantage over your opponent to get themselves.

Action

Lincoln Hawk is a lonely trucker who to deserves some money with contests in arm wrestling. Although he has a wife and son, let them but because of problems with his rich father-in- early alone. His twelve year-old son Michael is sent by his grandfather to a military academy.

When his ex-wife and Michael's mother seriously ill, asks this Lincoln to spend time with their son to pick him up in the event of her death with him. When she dies shortly afterwards during a heart surgery, would avoid at all costs, that his grandson at Hawk, whom he considers a boorish losers grows difficult for her rich father.

Because Michael in the short time together with his father has a lot of fun and this manages to get through to Michael, Michael decides to live with his father, although he was a carefree life could have led with his grandfather. This change results primarily from the fact that Mike finds out that his grandfather did not tell all the years the truth about his father and also inhibited the contact for this him. Michael travels to Las Vegas to find his father in the World Cup and to support him. After Hawk wins the world championship in arm wrestling in Las Vegas, he also has the financial means to provide for his son can. He wins in addition to the prize money of $ 100,000 a brand new truck with a value of $ 250,000, to which he screwed the hood ornament in the form of a silver hawks his old truck. He also wins $ 140,000 because he had bet of 20:1 to himself immediately before the tournament $ 7,000, at odds. He got the money from the sale of his old truck, he still sold it for $ 7000 before. The film ends with a conversation between Hawk and Michael in front of the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas by both decide to name their new company Hawk & Son.

Reviews

The lexicon of international film wrote that the film " ästhetisiere " the arm wrestling and " idealising " meritocracy.

Awards

The film won the 1988 Young Artist Award. David Mendenhall was nominated for the same price.

Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock won in 1988 for the song Meet Me Halfway the Film & Television Music Award of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

David Mendenhall received the 1988 Golden Raspberry Awards in two categories.

Background

The shooting took place in Las Vegas, Utah and California. The film played in theaters in the USA about a 16.06 million U.S. dollars.

1987 in film Screenplay Yoram Globus Film score David Gurfinkel Don Zimmerman (film editor) The Cannon Group Truck driver
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