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Tucker: A Man and His Dream - The Washington Post
August 12 1988
"Tucker: The Man and His Dream." It could be "Francis Coppola: The Man and His Dream." The flamboyant director has found more than a few parallels between himself and the visionary and ill-fated auto builder Preston Tucker, who struggled to rev up the industry's sluggish status quo.
Goosed into coherence by executive producer George Lucas (reunited with Coppola for the first time since "American Graffiti"), Coppola and screenwriters Arnold Schulman and David Seidler have constructed a morality play that pits a band of goodnatured conceptualists (a fine Jeff Bridges as Tucker and his merry men designers, including Martin Landau, Frederick Forrest and Japanese actor Mako) against the political-industrial philistines. His structure thus outlined, Coppola is free to suffuse "Tucker" with his dizzying flash.
Nobody does it better: Pristine images glide past you with the just-waxed brilliance of an assembly line of new Tuckers. Master cinematographer Vittorio ("The Last Emperor") Storaro's camera dives, ducks and swirls, and Joe Jackson's jazz score completes the ultraslick finish. Appropriately larger-than-life performances by Bridges, Landau, Forrest, Dean Stockwell and others lend a mythic 1940s Hollywood air to this heady, state-of-the-art experience.
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