Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
“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.”
Drama · 1h 51m
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.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Screenplay
- Arnold Schulman, David Seidler
- Director of Photography
- Vittorio Storaro
- Original Music Composer
- Joe Jackson
- Editor
- Priscilla Nedd-Friendly
- Producer
- Fred Fuchs, Fred Roos, Francis Ford Coppola
Details
- Release date
- 1988-08-12
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Lucasfilm Ltd., American Zoetrope
- Budget
- $23,000,000
- Box office
- $19,652,638
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