Over the Top (film)

Over the Top is a 1987 sport drama film starring Sylvester Stallone. It was produced and directed by Menahem Golan, and its screenplay was written by Stirling Silliphant and Stallone. The original music score was composed by Giorgio Moroder. The main character, played by Stallone, is a longhaul truck driver who tries to win back his alienated son while becoming a champion arm wrestler.

Over the course of a trip from Colorado to California, Michael comes to trust Hawk, especially after Hawk rescues him from kidnappers who were actually goons hired by Cutler to retrieve Mike. However, when they arrive at the hospital, Hawk is despondent to learn they have arrived too late as Christina died in surgery earlier that day. Feeling he would have been there with her if not for Hawk, Michael leaves for his grandfathers estate. An attempt to retrieve Michael ends with Hawk being arrested for trespassing when he resorts to ramraiding after being turned away from Cutlers gated mansion. Michael visits his father in jail and forgives him, but tells Hawk that he feels more secure living with his grandfather.After his release, Hawk leaves to compete in the World Armwrestling Championship in Las Vegas. His hope is to win the grand prize of 100,000 and an expensive new custom semitruck and thus start his own trucking company. Hawk is a clear underdog, having a size disadvantage over just about every other participant, including his old rival Bull Hurley, who is the oddson favorite out of the other 500 competitors. When he arrives, he sells his truck for 7,000 and uses the money to place a bet on himself to win the contest. Meanwhile, Michael finds all the letters that Hawk had sent over the years and realizes that his grandfather has been hiding the truth about his father from him. Cutler did everything possible to drive his parents apart and had been intercepting and hiding the regular letters Hawk had written to him. Stunned by his grandfathers deceptions, Michael steals a truck to go to Las Vegas to find Hawk. ........

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