Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Name: Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Genre: Drama
Released: 1988-08-12
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau, Frederic Forrest, Mako

When they tried to buy him, he refused. When they tried to bully him, he resisted. When they tried to break him, he became an American legend. The true story of Preston Tucker.

1988 · 1h 51m · PG Drama
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola

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Overview

Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his innovative envision will be repeatedly sabotaged by his own unrealistic expectations and the Detroit automobile industry tycoons.

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Fresh 12 Dec 2007

The true story of a great American visionary who was thwarted, if not destroyed, by the established order, Tucker represents the sunniest imaginable telling of an at least partly tragic episode in recent history.

Variety Staff, Variety

Fresh 12 Dec 2007

The result is a film consistent narratively, confident stylistically and abounce with the quaint quality that animated both the hero and his times, something we used to call pep.

Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine

Fresh 12 Dec 2007

Francis Coppola's stylish and heartfelt tribute to the innovative automobile designer Preston Thomas Tucker turns out to be one of his most personal and successful movies.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

Fresh 20 May 2003

Mr. Coppola has done things this fancily before, but never with so clear and moving a sense of purpose.

Janet Maslin, New York Times

Rotten 1 Jan 2000

Tucker came up with a classic, but poor Coppola has turned a great American tragedy into a gas-guzzling human comedy.

Rita Kempley, Washington Post