Over the Top

About Over the Top

Lincoln Hawk a hard-luck big-rig trucker 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.

Over the Top is a 1987 action drama film directed by Menahem Golan. The film is filed under underdog, truck driver, truck, and on the road.

Sylvester Stallone appears as Lincoln Hawk, Robert Loggia as Jason Cutler, Susan Blakely as Christina Hawk, and Rick Zumwalt as Bob "Bull" Hurley. At 94 minutes long, it arrived in February 1987.

The screenplay is by Stirling Silliphant and Sylvester Stallone. Produced by Golan-Globus Productions. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Prime Video with Ads.

Duel, Maximum Overdrive, and Convoy make useful companions to Over the Top, all filed under eighteen wheeler. TMDB voters put it at 6.5 out of 10 across 1,938 votes and it carries a PG rating.