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Days of Thunder
The movie tells the story of stock-car driver Cole Trickle, a young fireball on the Southern stock-car circuit who has loads of talent but no conception of how to channel that talent in to racing success. But finally he gets his chance to compete at the top level.
19 August 1942, Sheffield, Alabama, USA
30 November 1940, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
14 August 1956, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
22 January 1966, England, UK
5 January 1931, San Diego, California, USA
June 27, 1957 in Detroit, Michigan, USA
7 March 1959, Cullowhee, North Carolina, USA
27 March 1957, Rusk, Texas, USA
26 October 1962, London, England, UK
30 July 1946, Hueytown, Alabama, USA
May 24, 2016
'90s race-car blockbuster has sexism, profanity.May 20, 2014
Whatever they call this movie, it's nothing more than a puffed-up sequel to Top Gun. If you saw Top Gun, you can anticipate every twist and turn, every screeching spinout of Days of Thunder.May 20, 2014
Whoosh!! Days of Thunder just streaked in, fast as a race-car paint job and about as flat.May 20, 2014
It's hard to enjoy a movie that is so predictable. Every time there's a race, you know who's going to win. Every time there's a knock at the door, you know who's going to be standing on the other side.May 20, 2014
Days of Thunder does accomplish the job it sets out to do. It's sometimes funny, sometimes exciting and never too boring or offensive. In a disappointing movie season -- as this one has started out to be -- that can seem like quite an accomplishment.May 20, 2014
This is the kind of monstrously overgrown commercial movie that depends entirely on the microscopic pleasures of having one`s most routine expectations fulfilled.May 20, 2014
Good writing by Robert Towne and a host of strong supporting performances complement the on-the-track visuals of director Tony Scott in giving us a sense of the leap of faith that is required by drivers at this level.May 20, 2014
Not only does Days of Thunder disappoint on the basic narrative level, it is also a peculiarly thrill-less action movie. Shot from the driver's point of view, the race sequences lose their novelty as swiftly as a video game.June 25, 2015
Dispensing with all notions that Days of Thunder is a critical work of any sort reveals its hollow and misogynistic underpinnings.May 20, 2014
Days of Thunder lives up to its title in one respect. It`s big-time noisy. It`s also as empty as the stands at the Daytona 500 an hour after the race.May 20, 2014
Like the previous Simpson-Bruckheimer pictures, it's designed to give audiences an overdose of the thrill of victory; it wants us to jump out of our seats, pumping our fists in the air and roaring for the hero to pulverize his opponents.May 20, 2014
Days of Thunder wants to be an action drama, but it's really just a star vehicle of the most rudimentary sort, with nothing to offer Cruise except a chance to look pretty and chant time-tested punchlines.