Days of Thunder

1990 • 107 minutes
4.5
318 reviews
38%
Tomatometer
PG-13
Rating
Eligible
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About this movie

...comes on like thunder! It's a winner! - Joel Siegel, WABC-TV/New York "****Best movie of the summer!" - Steve Kmetko, KCBS-TV/Los Angeles From the engine roar and fever pitch of professional stock car racing, Days of Thunder explodes with the most spectacular racing action ever captured on film. Tom Cruise plays race driver Cole Trickle, whose talent and ambition are surpassed only by his burning need to win. Discovered by businessman Tim Daland (Randy Quaid), Cole is teamed with legendary crew chief and car-builder Harry Hogge (Academy Award. winner Robert Duvall) to race for the Winston Cup at the Daytona 500. A fiery crash nearly ends Cole's career and he must turn to a beautiful doctor (Nicole Kidman) to regain his nerve and the true courage needed to race, to win and to live.
Rating
PG-13

Ratings and reviews

4.5
318 reviews
Oscar “OATmeal” Tobar
January 28, 2020
Top Gun but it's stock car racing, the writing seems Abit off then yet again nothing is perfect, there are some errors here and there. But never the less it's still the best stock car movie ever.
Edward Reynolds
September 12, 2019
Basically it's Top Gun but I stead of jets there's nascar. That said this is one of my all time childhood movies and seeing a young John C Reilly is also a good bonus.
ian chatman
January 28, 2016
Great classic Cruise flick, love Nascar and the soundtrack. Needs to be a sequel....veteran Trickle...if Rocky can do it so can Cole.