Synopsis
Stroker Ace, a champion NASCAR driver, is standing at the top of his career, but is getting fed up with having to do as he's told. In between rebelling against his sponsor (a fried chicken chain)'s promotion gimmicks (like making him dress up in giant chicken suit) he spends the rest of the movie trying to bed the buxom Pembrook.
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Cast
- Burt ReynoldsStroker Ace
- Ned BeattyClyde Torkle
- Jim NaborsLugs
- Parker StevensonAubrey James
- Loni AndersonPembrook Feeney
- John BynerDoc Seegle
- Cassandra PetersonGirl with Lugs
- Bubba SmithArnold
- Warren StevensJim Catty
- Dale EarnhardtNASCAR Driver
Recommendations
- 50
Washington Post
A knuckleheaded but amiable summer trifle, Stroker Ace is aimed straight at Burt Reynolds' vast heartland public. - 38
Chicago Sun-Times
Stroker Ace is another in a series of essentially identical movies he has made with director Hal Needham, and although it's allegedly based on a novel, it's really based on their previous box-office hits like Smokey and the Bandit and The Cannonball Run. - 30
The New York Times
The must-miss movie of the summer. It's a witless retread of the earlier, far funnier road-movie collaborations of Mr. Needham and Mr. Reynolds. - 25
TV Guide Magazine
Burt Reynolds hits new lows as he mugs his way through this film as Stroker Ace, a race-car driver who's under the control of chicken-franchise owner Clyde Torkle (Ned Beatty). The script is filled with good ol' boy humor and car crackups. - 25
Miami Herald
It's hard to believe there could be so much slack in a film only 96 minutes long. Director Needham blows off the last 25 or so with a race sequence. We're treated to one uninteresting crowd shot after another while a Dixieland band plays Dixie -- all of Dixie -- on the soundtrack. [02 July 1983, p.C5]
