Stroker Ace

1983 "He's hot on the track...and off!"

Stroker Ace

4.9 | 1h34m | PG | en | Action

Stroker Ace, a champion NASCAR driver, is standing at the top of his career, but is getting fed up with having to do as he's told. In between rebelling against his sponsor (a fried chicken chain)'s promotion gimmicks (like making him dress up in giant chicken suit) he spends the rest of the movie trying to bed the buxom Pembrook.

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4.9 | 1h34m | PG | en | Action , Comedy | More Info

Released: July. 01,1983 | Released Producted By: Universal Pictures , Warner Bros. Pictures Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

Synopsis

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Cast

Burt Reynolds , Ned Beatty , Jim Nabors

Director

Paul Peters

Producted By

Universal Pictures , Warner Bros. Pictures

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Cast

Burt Reynolds

as Stroker Ace

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Ned Beatty

as Clyde Torkle

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Jim Nabors

as Lugs

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Reviews

SnoopyStyle 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.

michaeljhuman You sort of have to like these Hal Needham/Reynolds movies to like this.The plot is weak. The dialog is mildly amusing. I found the whole chicken sponsor thing pretty funny though.Loni Anderson fans might enjoy her ridiculous role as the naive PR person for the chicken chainThere's cleavage shown from time to time which some will appreciateI have read the book, and the movie is quite different than the book. The book is a series of stories, possibly tall tales, loosely based on the experiences of the writers in racing. It's mostly about sex, heavy drinking and wrecking/racing cars. I enjoyed it a lot. The book is better than the movie IMOI think Nabors and Reynolds have some funny interactions.Auto racing is rather limited, probably due to cost. But you do get to see some vintage cars and racing footageJust remember this is a silly pointless movie, in the spirit of movies like Smokey and the Bandit and maybe you will enjoy it like I do

luigifan88 I'm a big Burt Reynolds fan. This wasn't one of his box office hit movies but it's worth seeing if you like humor. The end where they had the mess-ups were funny too. In one of them Jerry Reed appeared. That was funny. It all depends on the type of comedy. I give it 7/10.

Coxer99 Dreary comedy with Reynolds wasting himself on silly gags as a NASCAR driver going head to head with fried chicken mogul Beatty. Burt even dresses like a chicken and that's pretty much how the film operates. Jim Nabors won a much deserved Razzie for his performance and Anderson is neither sexy nor talented. Burt and director Needham's streak of films came to a crashing halt soon after this mess.