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  1. Tucker: The Man and His Dream is a 1988 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Jeff Bridges as inventor Preston Tucker.

  2. Aug 12, 1988 · A biographical comedy drama about Preston Tucker, a maverick car designer who challenged the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau and more.

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    • Biography, Comedy, Drama
    • Francis Ford Coppola
    • 1988-08-12
  3. Obsessed with cars since childhood, inventor Preston Tucker (Jeff Bridges) has his first successful auto design partnership in the 1930s and designs a successful gun turret for World War II use...

    • (47)
    • Francis Ford Coppola
    • PG
    • Jeff Bridges
  4. “Tucker: The Man and His Dream” paints us a Preston Tucker who is a genial, incurably optimistic dreamer, a man who gathers a small band around him and inspires them to build a great car, and yet all the time he lacks an ounce of common sense or any notion of the real odds against him.

  5. A semi-fictionalized account of engineer Preston Tucker's quest to manufacture his revolutionary car of the future is told. The present in this case is WWII, his want being to supply what he will see being the pent up demand of the American consumer in the post-war era.

  6. (2022) Sea-shanty-singing comedy sequel with James Purefoy. The band are on tour but it's not all plain sailing. The record company want Jim to replace his dead dad and Leadville...

  7. In a dazzling portrayal by Jeff Bridges, Tucker is a dynamic engineer and an enthusiastic showman who envisions the car of the future. Against mighty odds he manages to build a fleet of them - only to have his factory shut down by Detroit's Big Three automobile manufacturers.

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