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Audiences rate it 19 points higher than critics do. Most of the 747 1980s action movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
Stroker Ace, a champion NASCAR driver, is standing at the top of his career, but is getting fed up with having to do as he's told. In between rebelling against his sponsor (a fried chicken chain)'s promotion gimmicks (like making him dress up in giant chicken suit) he spends the rest of the movie trying to bed the buxom Pembrook.
Ratings
IMDb4.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes18%
Metacritic30/100
Audiences rate it 19 points higher than critics do.
64 audience votes
Key crew
- Al CappsOriginal Music Composer
- Hal NeedhamDirector
- David E. PeckinpahWriter
- Hal NeedhamScreenplay
- Hugh WilsonScreenplay
Cast
- Burt ReynoldsStroker Ace
- Ned BeattyClyde Torkle
- Jim NaborsLugs
- Parker StevensonAubrey James
- Loni AndersonPembrook Feeney
- John BynerDoc Seegle
- Cassandra PetersonGirl with Lugs
- Bubba SmithArnold
- Warren StevensJim Catty
- Dale EarnhardtNASCAR Driver
- Frank O. HillDad Seegle
- Alfie WiseCharlie
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Themes
sportsracingnascar