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Heart Like a Wheel (1983)
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1 April 1983 (USA)
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Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before...
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Nominated for Oscar.
Another 3 nominations
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NBC Renews ‘Chuck,’ ‘Law & Order’; Cancels ‘Medium,’ ‘My Name is Earl’
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Bonnie Bedelia | ... | Shirley Muldowney |
 | Beau Bridges | ... | Connie Kalitta |
 | Bruce Barlow | ... | Bass Player, Tex's Band |
 | Leo Rossi | ... | Jack Muldowney |
 | Anthony Edwards | ... | John Muldowney (age 15-23) |
 | Hoyt Axton | ... | Tex Roque |
| Paul Bartel | ... | Chef Paul |
| Missy Basile | ... | Angela |
 | Creed Bratton | ... | Photographer |
| Jesse Aragon | ... | Carlos |
| Tiffany Brissette | ... | Little Shirley |
| Paul Bryar | ... | Matt, Card Player |
| James Burton | ... | Guitar Player, Tex's Band |
| Martin Casella | ... | Repoter #1 |
| Michael Cavanaugh | ... | NHRA Boss |
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113 min
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Actor Charles Haid was originally cast as Connie Kalitta and filmed for several days before being fired for being difficult. He was replaced by Beau Bridges.
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Factual errors: When Shirley shows up at the race track with her first dragster, Jack Muldowney says he's going to work on the "carb". The engine has Hilborn injectors, not carburetors.
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Featured in Shirley Muldowney: Behind the Wheel (2006) (V)
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Built for Comfort
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Thsi excellent film is finally being released on DVD (coming soon) from Anchor Bay, so no more over priced bootlegs on ebay! This will be great for all drag racing fans in general and Shirley fans in particular, up to this DVD release you could only hope to catch it on TV (seldom ever shown) or find one of the old video tapes (usually worn out) or pay a crazy price to someone on ebay who will then sell you a bootleg copy of one of the poor quality video tapes that he burned to DVD-r (and call it a euro import, never released in the U.S.) ebay amazes me the non legal stuff they let be listed on their site., ebay has become a corporate nightmare over the last few years anyway, so who cares i guess.