Over the Top 1987 123movies

Watch: Over the Top 1987 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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..
Plot: Sylvester Stallone stars as hard-luck big-rig trucker Lincoln Hawk and takes us under the glaring Las Vegas lights for all the boisterous action of the World Armwrestling Championship. Relying on wits and willpower, Hawk tries to rebuild his life by capturing the first-place prize money, and the love of the son he abandoned years earlier into the keeping of his rich, ruthless father-in-law.
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Ratings:

	5.8/10 Votes: 55,369
	32% | RottenTomatoes
	40/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1383 Popularity: 19.373 | TMDB

Reviews:

A real crowd-pleaser
It’s hard to dislike Over The Top. Sure, it can get corny, old-fashioned, far-fetched (the gate-crashing scene, fun and unbelievable.) The movie sorta plays like a cross between Highway to Heaven and THe A-Team. But somehow, you find yourself watching despite whatever ‘good judgment’ you think you might have regarding the cinema. You get swept up in the film’s good vibes. You care about what happens to Hawke and his son. Most of the credit for this has to go to Sylvester Stallone. He plays the part of a truck driver coping with the new experience of getting to know his twelve-year-old son for the first time quite well. You care because you sense how much HE cares. it is conveyed by a sure delivery from Stallone. His character never seems too slight or well, too Over the top. There is a bond that slowly forms between him and his son. And the movie has a great “training” montage complete with great song that will remind you of what was so good about the Rocky films. David Mendenhall agreeably plays the part of Mike with the combination of distrust, arrogance and vulnerability you would expect from someone his age who went thru what he did.. No, he’s not Haley Joel Osmont. We won’t leave the movie shaking our heads at his incredible,precocious talent. That doesn’t mean he didn’t acquit himself nicely in the film. Robert Loggia’s role could have been fleshed out a little more. He seems to much like a comic-strip villain. The film could have delved more into his reasons for hating Hawke. that part could have been beefed up a bit.

I enjoyed the Arm-wrestling backdrop. It was a refreshing change for movies of that era that boasted big stars like Stallone. Usually, movies that were sport-specific other than the trad football, baseball, or boxing stories tended to use people who were less known (Gotcha, Gleaning the Cube)

A good film. warm, funny, exciting. The better face of the Eighties cinema.

Can you top this!
***SPOILERS*** Another one of the many Sylvestor Stallone meek common and simple man winning against astronomical odds like films that he made in the 1970’s and 1980’s has Sly playing soft spoken and inoffensive looking, until you try to mess with him, trucker Lincoln Hawk. Hawk has been summoned by his dying, from a serious heart operation, ex-wife Christina, Susan Blakley, who wants him to reunite with the couples 12 year old son Michael,David Mendenhall, whom he hasn’t seen since birth! Of course Michael who’s attending military school wants nothing to do with his dad feeling that he deserted him and his mom because his control freak Grandpa Jason “Cut-throat” Cutler, Robert Loggia, has been feeding him all kinds of crap about his dad for as long as he could remember.

It doesn’t take long for Hawk to win little Michael over in his revealing to him, when he’s challenged by some muscle bound dude at a local truck stop, his secret life as a big time arm wrestling champ. That together with teaching Michael to drive his 18 wheeler, without a license, down the highway had the boy finally look up to his absentee, for some 12 years, poppa as the man he’d like to be when he grows up! This all turns sour when finally getting to the hospital to see mom Michael finds out that she passed away without him being able to say a final good-by to her! Holding his pop responsible for being too late, by driving to the hospital with his dump truck not flying there with Grandpa, to see his mom alive he suddenly doesn’t want to have anything to do with him.

The movie takes another turn for the worst for Hawk when in desperation to see Michael he power drives his rig straight into Grandpa Jason’s mansion totally demolishing the place. Gramps declines to press charges against Hawk only if he gets out of both his and Michael’s lives which Hawk, in avoiding the slammer, grudging agrees to. Now really on the outs with Michael the only thing left for Hawk to do is win the world champion arm wrestling contest at Las Vegas. That’s where the down and out Hawk can finally prove to himself Michael and the world, as well as Grandpa Jason, that he’s not the loser in life that everyone says he is. There’s also the fact that Michael later finds hundreds of letters, including Christmas birthday and get well cards, from his pop that he sent him over the years that Grandapa hide from him! That proves to Michael that Poppa Hawk was indeed the sweet and caring person that he always told him he was! It also proved that Grandpa Jason wasn’t that bright by leaving the letters out in the open, and not burning them, for his grandson Michael to find.

****SPOILERS**** The big final has lots of grunting and grinding among the sweating arm wrestling contestants at the Las Vegas Convention Hall with Hawk, sprained arm and all, taking on all comers as he works his way up to the #1 match with world arm wrestling champ, for five years straight, the 6 foot 4 inch 350 pound Bob “Bull” Hurley played by actual arm wrestling champion Rick Zumwalt. It’s then that Michael, who ran away from home, shows up at the tournament together with Grandpa Jason, who’s trying to get him back home, which turns out to be the turning point in this earth shattering and arm breaking arm wrestling match! That’s by his son Michael giving Hawk the push that he needed to get it “Over the Top” and finally, after all the grunts groans and broken fingers & bones, winning the damn contest!

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 33 min (93 min)
Budget 25000000
Revenue 16057580
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Action, Drama, Sport
Director Menahem Golan
Writer Gary Conway, David Engelbach, Stirling Silliphant
Actors Sylvester Stallone, Robert Loggia, Susan Blakely
Country United States
Awards 4 wins & 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints), Dolby Stereo (35 mm prints)
Aspect Ratio 2.20 : 1 (70 mm prints), 2.35 : 1
Camera Lenses and Panaflex Camera by Panavision
Laboratory Metrocolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 70 mm (blow-up), 35 mm