
Based on a true story. Shortly after World War II, Preston Tucker is a grandiose schemer with a new dream, to produce the best cars ever made. With the assistance of Abe Karatz and some impressive salesmanship on his own part, he obtains funding and begins to build his factory. The whole movie also has many parallels with director Coppola's own efforts to build a new movie studio of his own.... (Full plot summary below)
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Based on a true story. Shortly after World War II, Preston Tucker is a grandiose schemer with a new dream, to produce the best cars ever made. With the assistance of Abe Karatz and some impressive salesmanship on his own part, he obtains funding and begins to build his factory. The whole movie also has many parallels with director Coppola's own efforts to build a new movie studio of his own.
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| USA TodayMike ClarkFrancis Coppola's stylish and heartfelt tribute to the innovative automobile designer Preston Thomas Tucker turns out to be one of his most personal and successful movies. |
| DVDLaserDouglas Pratta movie for people who love World's Fairs |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsMark R. LeeperFrancis Ford Coppola and Lucasfilm in top form bring to the screen the story of automotive legend Preston Tucker. The film is a tribute to American creativity and a lament about a system that wastes genius. |
| KFOR Channel 4 NewsBlake DavisOne of Francis Ford Coppola's great movies that slipped through the cracks in the late 80's. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonNobody does it better: Pristine images glide past you with the just-waxed brilliance of an assembly line of new Tuckers. |
| Los Angeles TimesSheila BensonTucker represents the sunniest imaginable telling of an at least partly tragic episode in recent history. |
| Battleship PretensionDavid BaxTucker, the character, embellishes and enchants with his mile a minute mouth (hilarious blowing past malapropisms like opening "Aunt Dora's box") while Tucker, the film, does the same in its rose-colored view of an imaginary heyday of U.S. manufacturing. |
| Washington PostRita KempleyTucker came up with a classic, but poor Coppola has turned a great American tragedy into a gas-guzzling human comedy. |
| FanboyNation.comSean MulvihillTucker: The Man and His Dream is an all-American story. It's just not the one that everyone wants to hear. |
| TimeRichard SchickelThe result is a film consistent narratively, confident stylistically and abounce with the quaint quality that animated both the hero and his times, something we used to call pep. |