Over the Top

Feb 13, 1987

1h 33m

★ 6.4

Some fight for money... Some fight for glory... He's fighting for his son's love.

Overview

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.

Genres

Action

Drama

Production Companies

The Cannon Group

Warner Bros. Pictures

Golan-Globus Productions

Over the Top Trailers

Cast

Lincoln Hawk

Sylvester Stallone

Jason Cutler

Robert Loggia

Christina Hawk

Susan Blakely

Bob "Bull" Hurley

Rick Zumwalt

Michael Cutler/Michael Hawk

David Mendenhall

Tim Salanger

Chris McCarty

Ruker

Terry Funk

Announcer

Bob Beattie

Collins

Allan Graf

Smasher

Magic Schwarz

John Grizzly

Bruce Way

Big Boy (Richie)

Jimmy Keegan

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