MOVIE · 1988

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

ComedyDrama111 min

Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945: inventor Preston Tucker is determined to build the car of the future, a sleek new model that could shake up Detroit's postwar auto industry. Jeff Bridges is Tucker, a gifted promoter and engineer whose grand plans attract investors, workers, and plenty of suspicion. Francis Ford Coppola tracks his attempt to bring the Tucker 48 to market as opposition gathers from the Big Three automakers and stock-fraud accusations begin to close in. Joan Allen and Martin Landau are part of the crowded world around Tucker, where factory-floor hustle, boardroom pressure, and outsized ambition keep colliding.