Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(HDnet Movies)
A 1940's entrepreneur designs a new car, but then runs afoul of corporations and politicians who try to stop him every step of the way. The period flavor is overproduced by Coppola and Lucasfilm, the result looking more like a movie set than real Americana, which is ironic given the subject matter. In addition, for most of the film I thought Tucker was nothing more than a "snake oil salesman": cooking up advertising and selling something that actually did not exist, and I developed an extreme dislike for his fake persona. Apparently I missed the point, because after a long, predictable court trial for the ending he turns out to be the hero. The film bears many similarities to Coppola's similarly overblown pet project from the early 80's: One from the Heart.
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