"Good, Underrated Father/Son Drama!"

Rating: 6/10 (23 July 2012)

Sylvester Stallone, Robert Loggia, David Mendenhall, Susan Blakely and Rick Zumwalt star in this 1987 drama. Stallone (Rocky) plays Lincoln Hawk, an arm-wrestling trucker who is about to meet his son, Michael (Mendenhall) for the first time. He picks him up at his military academy and they travel home to see Michael's ill mom, Christina (Blakely). Michael doesn't give Hawk a chance at first until they spend more time on the road. Michael's grandfather, Cutler (Loggia) is against the idea of Hawk reuniting with Michael and tries keeping them apart. He succeeds until Michael makes his own decision to be with his father. Zumwalt plays arm-wrestler, Bull Hurley who hates Hawk and competes against him in an arm-wrestling tournament. I think this is one of Stallone's most underrated films, he & Loggia are great in it as well as Giorgio Moroder's score. I recommend this good father/son drama.