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| Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: July 27, 1973 |
Starring:
Art Lund, Ed Lauter, Gary Busey, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Gregory Walcott, Jeff Bridges, Ned Beatty, Tom Ligon, Valerie Perrine, William Smith
Summary:
A young hellraiser quits his moonshine business to try to become the best NASCAR racer the south has ever seen.
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The casting, the acting, and the milieu seem effortlessly, inexplicably right. This movie transcends its genre; it isn't only about stock-car racing, any more than The Hustler was only about shooting pool.
After a fumbling start which looks like bad editing for TV, The Last American Hero [based on two articles by Tom Wolfe] settles into some good, gritty, family Americana, with Jeff Bridges excellent as a flamboyant auto racer determined to succeed on his own terms and right a wrong to his father, played expertly by Art Lund.
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