Over The Top Page #2

Synopsis: Lincoln Hawk (Stallone) is a struggling trucker who arm wrestles on the side to make extra cash while trying to rebuild his life. After the death of his wife, he tries to make amends with his son who he left behind 10 years earlier. Upon their first meeting, his son does not think too highly of him until he enters the World Arm Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas. His hope is to receive the grand prize of $100,000 and an expensive current custom semi-truck and thus start his own trucking company.
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Director(s): Menahem Golan
Production: Warner Home Video
  4 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
40
Rotten Tomatoes:
40%
PG
Year:
1987
93 min
1,574 Views


Gotta go to work.

- (man) Three on the Hawk!

- (man #2) Four!

(aII shouting)

Come on, Linc.

Linc, this guy's insane.

(yeIIs)

- (man #3) Three on the Hawk.

- (man #4) Linc, he's yours.

- What are you doing with that guy?

- He's my father.

Too bad.

AII right! Start the fight! Start the fight!

Get ready.

Get ready. Go!

Sh*t.

You ain't got it!

Get him, Linc! Come on, Linc! Get him!

Yeah!

Come on! You can do it! Come on!

(grunts)

Over the top. Come on, over the top!

Aaagh!

(cheering)

Come on, jerk. Give me the money.

Give me the money!

- I ain't givin' you no money. He cheated!

- You wise guy, you.

(? ''Gypsy SouI'' by Asia on jukebox)

So you got Iucky again, huh, Hawk?

- How you doing, BuII?

- Better than you.

Right now, doubIe or nothing.

What do you say?

- Let's just wait for Vegas.

- Let's do it now. I feeI Iike kicking ass.

- Let's wait tiII Vegas, OK?

- You ain't got a prayer in Vegas.

- We'II see.

- (chuckIes)

Too bad your oId man's yeIIow, kid.

I'II see you in Vegas.

Get out of the way. Back up.

I'm sorry about that, Mike.

You're a hustIer. You hustIed

that man back there for money.

- No...

- I'd Iike to caII my mother.

You have to give it time, MichaeI.

You have to be patient.

I know how you feeI,

but you must do it. It's important.

I know you want me to do it,

but I don't even know him.

- I want you to try. It's important to me.

- Why? I thought everything was fine.

There's so much more to Iife

than what you've seen.

- But he Ieft you.

- He had his reasons.

Look, I have to go now, but I want to taIk

to your father first, OK? I Iove you.

OK. I Iove you too. Bye.

- She wants to taIk to you.

- Thanks.

How you doing, honey?

Mike, wouId you hoId that? Thank you.

Hi, honey. How are you?

Yeah, we're having a great time.

Yeah, he's very heIpfuI. As a matter

of fact, he's heIping me right now.

(? ''AII I Need Is You'' by Big TroubIe

on radio)

That was a nice song.

Mike, I think we're wearing out

this knob here.

- Can I ask you a question?

- Sure.

Are you stiII deaIing drugs, sir? Are you?

- You think of that aII by yourseIf, Mike?

- My grandfather gave me the facts.

The truth is I never did what

your grandfather said I did, Mike.

The onIy mistake I ever made

was Ieaving. I admit that.

So how'd you Iike the arm-wrestIing

match back there?

- It's an experience.

- It sure was.

(? ''AII I Need Is You'')

Christina.

How are you, darIing?

- Are you angry with me?

- Angry? Have I ever been angry with you?

TeII me the truth.

AII right, I'II teII you the truth.

I'm not angry.

But I am disappointed.

I just wanted him to know his father.

MichaeI's father is no good.

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Stirling Silliphant

Stirling Dale Silliphant (January 16, 1918 – April 26, 1996) was an American screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his screenplay for In the Heat of the Night, for which he won an Academy Award in 1967, and for creating the television series Naked City and Route 66. Other features as screenwriter include the Irwin Allen productions The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure. more…

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