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Summary: Integrity...
Review: I first saw this movie when I was going through my "Ayn Rand" stage of my life. Although my personal views of capitalism have shifted slightly since then, I still adore this movie. Even though my father is "into" old cars and I grew up riding around in a 1949 Chevy pickup, I had never even heard of Tucker's automobile. Today, I have framed an old picture of a Tucker car, and I have it hanging in my bedroom. Some reviewers have called it "The Best Movie No One has Ever Seen" and I agree. This is a movie for anyone. Whether you love or hate capitalism and whether you believe in the "American Dream" or not... this movie offers exceptional acting, a great soundtrack, phenominal camera work and screen changes, and a carefully crafted script. Coppola, Lucas, Bridges, Ladau, and Allen all displayed their own personal integrity in making this movie the work of art that it is.
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Summary: A wonderful story set in a time when America was great
Review: I first saw this movie when I was ten years old and loved it then as I do now. If you love the style of the 1940's and the incurable optimism of post-War America, then this flik is for you. Preston Tucker was true visionary who demonstrated the power and opportunities that each American has at their fingertips beginning with only a dream or two and Jeff Bridges captures the essence of this incredibly well.
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Summary: A wonderful story set in a time when America was great
Review: I first saw this movie when I was ten years old and loved it then as I do now. If you love the style of the 1940's and the incurable optimism of post-War America, then this flik is for you. Preston Tucker was true visionary who demonstrated the power and opportunities that each American has at their fingertips beginning with only a dream or two and Jeff Bridges captures the essence of this incredibly well.
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Summary: Tucker Auto....what an idea
Review: I have never heard of this movie or the man, until my husband picked up the movie used. This was a movie that he had seen in the past. This story is awesome, it's too bad that the common man is always the one sqwashed by big corporations and politics. I highly recommend this movie to anyone.
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Summary: Tucker Auto....what an idea
Review: I have never heard of this movie or the man, until my husband picked up the movie used. This was a movie that he had seen in the past. This story is awesome, it's too bad that the common man is always the one sqwashed by big corporations and politics. I highly recommend this movie to anyone.
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Summary: Great movie, but not history
Review: I loved this movie, and being an automotive enthusiast with a stable of 9 Studebakers (a company independent from the Big Three), I especially relished seeing the Tucker on the streets of America again. But beware...this is not a documentary and there is much more to the actual story than is shown in Coppola's fable. Anyone intrigued by the movie should conduct their own research into the true story of the Tucker Corporation and find out for themselves why only 50 Tuckers were assembled.
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Summary: Man the Hero
Review: If a picture is worth a thousand words, the front cover of this DVD says it all. It says that this is a movie about a "man and his dream"--and it shows that man to be cheerfully efficacious, as well as confident (evidently in his own ability to innovate, to create, to produce). The picture says all this and the movie certainly portrays that man, Tucker, as he is shown in the picture. What's more, a view of man as he "can be and ought to be" is placed in a story that is equally fascinating by itself--the story of a man's fight against corrupt politicians and the businessmen who run to them (for whatever reasons). Because of all this, I say for myself that this is one of the best movies made since I was born (1980 if anyone's counting)--and I give it five stars.
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Summary: Great Movie! This mans foresight was incredible
Review: It was a great movie! Tucker's forsight was way ahead of his time. Imagine what he could have accomplished if the "Big" guys wouldn't have been afraid of his innovation.
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Summary: Preston Tucker -- an innovator ahead of his time
Review: It's amazing to think that Tucker's car featured so many innovative ideas that are now standard on modern cars -- safety glass, padded dashboard, disk brakes, and fuel injection -- in the late '40's? All this cutting edge technology wrapped in a a stunning body with lightning-quick speeds (for the time). But this really isn't a story about the car. It's about the chances of one man versus an industrial juggernaught. The film seems to imply what many historians seem to believe -- that the Tucker car simply couldn't be allowed to be built, and Detroit's Big Three (and their political connections) would make sure of that. It makes me wonder. Can a person that invents a better mousetrap (or car, or telephone, or computer operating system, etc.) really achieve "the American Dream"?
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Summary: One of Jeff Bridges' best performances
Review: Jeff Bridges gives and excellent portrayal of the late Preston Tucker; an ambitious entrepreneur with an incredible sense of perspicaciousness. The film gives us a great vicarious experience of living in post-World War II America and witnessing the industrial renaissance that was taking place then. You don't have to be a classic car enthusiast to appreciate this film; just go ahead and watch it.
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