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13/02/1987 Action, Drama 1h 34m
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Some fight for money... Some fight for glory... He's fighting for his son's love.

Overview

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.

  1. Menahem Golan

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Sylvester Stallone

    Lincoln Hawk

  2. Robert Loggia

    Jason Cutler

  3. Susan Blakely

    Christina Hawk

  4. Rick Zumwalt

    Bob "Bull" Hurley

  5. David Mendenhall

    Michael Cutler/Michael Hawk

  6. Chris McCarty

    Tim Salanger

  7. Terry Funk

    Ruker

  8. Bob Beattie

    Announcer

  9. Allan Graf

    Collins

  10. View more

Full Cast & Crew

Reviews

A review by GenerationofSwine
Written by GenerationofSwine on 2023-01-12
I guess someone at Canon sat down and said "You know what, there are not enough movies about arm wrestling out there, we can pin the market on it." And they kind of did, I have never seen a movie about arm wrestling since... or before. In fact, this is the only one.

But, it also as a decent soundtrack in an 80s action flick kind of way. And, it tells a good story about a kid trying to re-connect with his father, who is a truck driver... and an arm wrestler.

And it manages to do it all in a very entertaining way, given the fact that it's about what a sport that you would think could only ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$25,000,000.00

Revenue
$16,057,580.00

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