A Film About A Father's Love For His Son.

Rating: 10/10 (2 September 2010)

A beautiful film. One of Sylvester's best performances.
This film is meant to be a story about the relationship between a father and a son he abandons at birth. He decides to redeem himself in his son's eyes, but will his son accept his love?
The message of this film is clear: do not look back in life, move forward in life all the time to new horizons, hopes and ambitions.
Plot: Lincoln Hawk is a struggling trucker who arm wrestles on the side to make extra cash while trying to rebuild his life. Hawk's wife Christina is very ill at the beginning of the film, and asks that Hawk pick up their son Michael from military school so that he may get to know his son; Hawk left them 10 years earlier. His controlling father-in-law Jason Cutler, a wealthy man who hates Hawk and disapproved of his daughters relationship with him, says that Hawk has no right to be in his grandson's life. Mike is very distrusting and bitter towards Hawk initially and treats him with contempt at every turn.
Over the course of a cross country trip, Mike comes to trust his father until learning about his mother's death. Feeling he would have been there with her if not for Hawk, he leaves for his grandfather's estate. An attempt to retrieve Mike ends with Hawk being arrested.
See the film to find out what happens next.
Beautiful direction by Menahem Golan based on a story by Gary Conway and David Engelbach and screenplay by Stirling Silliphant and Sylvester Stallone. Musical score by the brilliant Giorgio Moroder. Outstanding cinematography by David Gurfinkel.
Notable actors in the film are Sylvester Stallone(as Lincoln Hawk), David Mendenhall (as Mike),Robert Loggia (as Jason Cutler) and Rick Zumwalt (as Bob "Bull" Hurley).
P.S. Good work Sly 10/10.