Tucker: The Man and His Dream

(1988)

★ 6.7 IMDb · 447 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1988

Runtime: 111 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Фрэнсис Форд Коппола

Cast: Джефф Бриджес, Джоан Аллен, Мартин Ландау, Фредерик Форрест, Mako, Дин Стоквелл, Кристиан Слейтер, Nina Siemaszko, Marshall Bell, Peter Donat

Plot

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.

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.