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Stroker Ace is a 1983 American action comedy sport film directed by Hal Needham and starring Burt Reynolds as the eponymous Stroker Ace, a NASCAR driver. Burt Reynolds turned down the role of astronaut Garrett Breedlove in Terms of Endearment to do this film.
Reynolds' sidekick is an auto mechanic named Lugs , and the romantic interest is Loni Anderson. She plays a Sunday-school teacher who doesn't drink and is a virgin. So Reynolds slips her some champagne, gets her drunk and, in an unpleasant, unfunny and creepy scene, semi-undresses her while making small talk to her unconscious body.
Sep 6, 2018 · Reynolds followed Deliverance up with such hits as Smokey and The Bandit (a film Playboy called “the Gone with the Wind of good-ol’-boy movies”), Semi-Tough, The Cannonball Run, and The Best...
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Jul 1, 1983 · Stroker Ace: Directed by Hal Needham. With Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Jim Nabors, Parker Stevenson. The title character, a popular NASCAR driver, clashes with the fried-chicken mogul that sponsors his racing team.
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- Action, Comedy, Romance
- Hal Needham
- 1983-07-01
This was the movie which scuppered Burt Reynolds' career; he continued to appear in movies after it, but when none of his previously adoring fans went to see it, or nowhere near as many as before anyway, clearly the bell was tolling for his status as one of the biggest movie stars of all time.
Jan 4, 1987 · Over a salad in his hotel restaurant in Vancouver, Reynolds is handed a list of his 42 films over which to reflect on his career. He looks them over--and points a finger at “Stroker Ace,”...
Jul 2, 1983 · A knuckleheaded but amiable summer trifle, "Stroker Ace" is aimed straight at Burt Reynolds' vast heartland public. In this instance, the fans get a lightweight series of comedy interludes...
