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1987 • 1h 34min • PG • Action, Drama

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

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.

IMDb 5.8

RT 32%

MC 40

Director

Menahem Golan

Writers

Sylvester Stallone

Stirling Silliphant

Composer

Giorgio Moroder

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Sylvester Stallone

Lincoln Hawk

Robert Loggia

Jason Cutler

Susan Blakely

Christina Hawk

Rick Zumwalt

Bob "Bull" Hurley

David Mendenhall

Michael Cutler/Michael Hawk

Chris McCarty

Tim Salanger

Terry Funk

Ruker

Bob Beattie

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