It's a rarity these days of "director's cuts," "extended cuts," and all sorts of miscellaneous re-cuttings of motion pictures, that one arrives that's beautifully reconsidered, re-cut, and longer....
and it's far better than the theatrical original.
No need to go into the battles that occurred...
Francis Coppola's Tucker: A Man and His Dream (1988), surprised me upon its original release with a superb performance by an un-billed actor, Lloyd Bridges. A nice touch.
Father and son would appear together again in 1994, in Blown Away.
Tucker is less a filmed biography, and more a...