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Days of Thunder (1990) 5.7
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Harlem Hoogerhyde
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Cole Trickle enters the high-pressure world of Nascar racing. He's a hot driver with a hot temper, and this attitude gets him into trouble not only with other drivers, but members of his own team as well. Written by Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>
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You can't outrun the thunder. See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
27 June 1990 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Días de trueno See more »Box Office
Budget:
$60,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$82,670,733 (USA)Company Credits
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Runtime:
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (analog 70 mm prints)| CDS (digital 35 mm and 70 mm prints)| Dolby SR (analog 35 mm prints)Color:
Color (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
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Written by Steve Winwood, Muff Winwood and Spencer Davis
Performed by Spencer Davis Group
Courtesy of EMI Records/Island Records
By Arrangement with CEMA Special Markets
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Did You Know?
Trivia
When Cole wins at Darlington, the track announcer says third place goes to Geoffrey Bodine. Tim Daland, Cole's car owner, is based on owner Rick Hendrick, whose first driver was Bodine. See more »Goofs
Numerous problems with the juxtaposition, cleanliness, and markings of cars. See more »Quotes
Tim Daland: I had sponsors in from all over the coast and I'm hugging, and holding hands, and praying for a good showin'. And what do we do? We end up looking like a monkey fucking a football out there. Everybody out, please.See more »
Soundtracks
"GIMME SOME LOVIN'"Written by Steve Winwood, Muff Winwood and Spencer Davis
Performed by Spencer Davis Group
Courtesy of EMI Records/Island Records
By Arrangement with CEMA Special Markets
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If I had to guess the genesis for Days of Thunder had its place in two areas. First the fact that Top Gun proved to be such a mega-hit for Tom Cruise that a similar film was almost dictated to be made by Paramount. But secondly it was reported that on the set of The Color of Money, co-star Paul Newman got Cruise interested in auto racing so you put those two things together, Days of Thunder was almost a film that had to be made.
The film certainly has the feel of NASCAR to it and it takes its place along side such racing classics as Grand Prix, The Racers and Paul Newman's own film, Winning. The story is the teaming of young rookie sensation Cruise and top mechanic Robert Duvall.
Tom's character is a whole lot like the young fighter pilot in Top Gun, a kid with a world of confidence and the ability to make his brag become fact. He's a driver by instinct not knowing a whole lot about the mechanics of a racing car. That's the way he and Duvall complement each other although it's not an easy relationship.
Days of Thunder is also the film on which Tom met Mrs. Cruise number two, Nicole Kidman. She's a neurologist who gets to treat Tom after a crash and also drops the hammer on Cruise's rival Michael Rooker and his career after a serious head injury.
There are also some nice performances by Randy Quaid as the stock car owner and Cary Elwes as another of Cruise's rival drivers.
Fred Dalton Thompson, District Attorney of New York County on Law and Order, former United States Senator, and would be President of the United States is in the cast as the head of NASCAR. If the political thing doesn't work out for Fred, he certainly has the presence and authority to be a baseball commissioner. They'll certainly need another Judge Landis in that job to restore some integrity to that sport.
Days of Thunder got an Academy Award nomination for Sound Recording and it's a good followup film for Top Gun.