Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)

Based on a true story. Shortly after World War II, Preston Tucker is a grandiose schemer with a new dream, to produce the best cars ever made. With the assistance of Abe Karatz and some impressive salesmanship on his own part, he obtains funding and begins to build his factory. The whole movie also has many parallels with director Coppola's own efforts to build a new movie studio of his own. (imdb)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola
Written By: David Seidler, Arnold Schulman
Starring: Dean Stockwell, Christian Slater, Jay O. Sanders, Elias Koteas, Jeff Bridges, Martin Landau, Joan Allen, Peter Donat, Lloyd Bridges, Frederic Forrest, Mako, Marshall Bell

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eng; [Tucker: The Man and His Dream]; ein mann will seinen traum vom besten auto zur wirklichkeit verhelfen - wobei er trotz klarer widerstände mit seinem verkaufstalent viele herausforderungen in der produktion überwindet.;
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They do not make them like they use to. This movie is an 80's relic. It trivialises what is clearly a significant historic story, with a puffy piece on a seemingly eccentric loon. Tucker fails to entertain often coming off needlessly slow and trite. This appeared at the same time as 'Big' and 10 and a half years before 'Saving Private Ryan' and so is likely of its time, but time has moved on.
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This film has some slow parts and the script could have used one more rewrite to make it more interesting. However Jeff Bridges is great in this film, his performance makes the movie better. Overall I would recommend this film.
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This is a fascinating story, and the truly magnificent cast all do a great job with what they have to work with. Since the film is set immediately post-WWII, Coppola chooses to give it an exaggerated breezy "golly gee whiz" tone that has a tendency to keep everything fast moving and very surface level. I'm interested in Tucker, but i ultimately learn nothing about what makes him tick ... other than just like Coppola, he's a man with big, bold vision that makes terrible business decisions.
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