Stroker Ace

1983
PG
1h 36m

IMDb RATING

4.9/10

4.4K

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Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson in Stroker Ace (1983)

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Motorsport Action Comedy Romance Sport

The title character, a popular NASCAR driver, clashes with the fried-chicken mogul that sponsors his racing team.The title character, a popular NASCAR driver, clashes with the fried-chicken mogul that sponsors his racing team.The title character, a popular NASCAR driver, clashes with the fried-chicken mogul that sponsors his racing team.

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IMDb RATING

4.9/10

4.4K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 4 nominations total

Trivia
Burt Reynolds famously turned down a role in the feature film, Terms of Endearment (1983) for this film, saying it was the biggest regret of his career. He had made a verbal commitment to Hal Needham to do this by the time he was offered the Garrett Breedlove role in that film, but said in hindsight Needham could have waited, since "the world was not clamoring for another Reynolds car chase picture".

Goofs
During the Daytona 500 at the start of the film, the main grandstand is empty in some shots.

Quotes
Charlie: What's so bad about second?
Stroker Ace, Lugs Harvey: Screw Second!

Connections
Featured in At the Movies: Porky's II: The Next Day/Stroker Ace/Eddie Macon's Run/They Don't Wear Black Tie/Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1983)

Soundtracks
Stroker Ace (Stroker's Theme)
Written and Performed by The Charlie Daniels Band

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Featured review

5/10

the most Burt Reynolds

Stroker Ace (Burt Reynolds) grew up with moonshining Seegles being chased by the cops in the backwoods. He is a reckless arrogant womanizing three-time NASCAR champ. Aubrey James (Parker Stevenson) is his ambitious young rival. Lugs (Jim Nabors) is his crew chief. He is taken with virginal Pembrook Feeney (Loni Anderson). She's Clyde Torkle (Ned Beatty)'s new employee. When Stroker loses his sponsor, he signs up with untrustworthy Fried Chicken king Torkle as The Fastest Chicken in the South. He grows to hate his contract and tries to get out of it.

This is Burt Reynolds at his most Burt Reynolds. As a kid, I didn't really mind the bad writing and didn't get some of the jokes. It wasn't my favorite racing movie but I didn't know the critical panning this received. I love Cannonball Run and I knew this is inferior. Watching it again recently gave me a few more problems. Loni is a big robotic problem. Her innocent act does not work. The writing is not that funny either. It's just a lot of camp from the cast. I don't actually hate this but it's not good.