Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
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.
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Spider-Man: Homecoming feels inspired by John Hughes movies, the television show Freaks and Geeks (several people from that production were involved in Spider-Man: Homecoming), and even pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps entrepreneurial spirit movies like Tucker: The Man and His Dream.
And not only The Godfather; in its tale of a would-be industrial titan dragged down and through the mud by a series of jealous competitors, A Most Violent Year could be said to most resemble Coppola’s Tucker: The Man and His Dream.
Having set the precedent for Bertie's tongue twisted agony, Hooper and screenwriter David Seidler ("Tucker: The Man and His Dream") leap ahead to show the man's continuing embarrassment as a doctor advises him that smoking is relaxation for the larynx and coaxes him to read with a mouthful of marbles.
Screenwriter David Seidler ("Tucker: The Man and His Dream") also has been suffering in silence for some time; a stutterer himself, he researched and planned this project for years, but held off -- reportedly at the Queen Mum's request -- until her death, at 101, in 2002.
The terrific screenplay written by David Seidler (“Tucker: The Man and His Dream”) gives the entire cast great lines to speak and memorable situations to work through.
Seidler is a veteran screenwriter whose credits include "Tucker: The Man and His Dream" and three Writers Guild nominations for television features.
It is the work of a highly talented group of artists who might be regarded as British realists – Tom Hooper directed the soccer epic The Damned United ; Eve Stewart was production designer on Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy and Vera Drake ; Jenny Beavan was responsible for the costumes worn in Gosford Park and The Remains of the Day ; the cinematographer Danny Cohen lit Shane Meadows's This is England and Dead Man's Shoes ; Tariq Anwar's editing credits range from The Madness of King George to American Beauty ; and the screenplay is by the British writer David Seidler, who co-wrote Coppola's Tucker: The Man and His Dream .
Like Tucker: The Man and His Dream or The Right Stuff , Ford v Ferrari is an acutely observant examination of the holes that an obsession with the envelope, the edge, the very line of what’s possible can leave and the ones it can fill.