Monday, May 3, 2010

Days of thunder

Cole Trickle a hot shot sprint car driver gets recruited to get a new race car team off the ground and his Crew chief they bring back has been out of nascar for a long time problem is Trickle knows nothing about Nascars or cars and cant tell the team what the car is doing while he is racing and they have to firgure out how to get the car right and to get Trickle to stop breaking his car and racing hard with others then he gets in a wreck with his rival at the big race in Daytona and has allot of problems with it but him and his doctor start a relionship and it has its ups and downs along with the relionship with the other driver who he was in trouble with the other driver asks Cole to race his car at Daytona the next year and Cole says he will and wins the race. The Nascar action is very real looking and is done really well.
Director Tony Scott
Writers Robert Towne
Tom Cruise
Relase Date: June 27 1990
Genre: Action Drama Romance Sport
Academy Awards, USA
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1991 Nominated Oscar Best Sound
Charles M. Wilborn
Donald O. Mitchell
Rick Kline
Kevin O'Connell

BMI Film & TV Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1991 Won BMI

Cast

(Cast overview, first billed only)

Tom Cruise ... Cole Trickle

Robert Duvall ... Harry Hogge

Nicole Kidman ... Dr. Claire Lewicki

Randy Quaid ... Tim Daland

Cary Elwes ... Russ Wheeler

Michael Rooker ... Rowdy Burns
Fred Dalton Thompson ... Big John

John C. Reilly ... Buck Bretherton
J.C. Quinn ... Waddell

Don Simpson ... Aldo Bennedetti

Caroline Williams ... Jennie Burns
Donna W. Scott ... Darlene (as Donna Wilson)

Chris Ellis ... Harlem Hoogerhyde

Peter Appel ... Cole's Crew
Stephen Michael Ayers ... Crewmember
Film Music Award

Hans Zimmer

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