Over the Top
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Menahem Golan Run Time: 93 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 1987
Starring: David Mendenhall, Rick Zumwalt, Robert Loggia, Susan Blakely, Sylvester Stallone
Our In Defense Of… series continues with our Founder and Executive Director Logan Crow’s second pick, Over The Top, Menahem Golan’s 1987 sports drama!
Sylvester Stallone stars as hard-luck big-rig trucker Lincoln Hawk and takes us under the glaring Las Vegas lights for all the boisterous action of the World Armwrestling Championship. Relying on wits and willpower, Hawk tries to rebuild his life by capturing the first-place prize money, and the love of the son he abandoned years earlier into the keeping of his rich, ruthless father-in-law.
Featuring Robert Loggia in a supporting performance, Over the Top is a delightfully 80s take on the boxing movie.