Stroker Ace

Name: Stroker Ace
Genre: Action, Sport, Comedy, Romance
Released: July 1, 1983
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 30
Cast: Bubba Smith, Burt Reynolds, Cassandra Peterson, Frank O. Hill, Jim Nabors

1983

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: July 1, 1983 | PG

Starring: Bubba Smith, Burt Reynolds, Cassandra Peterson, Frank O. Hill, Jim Nabors, John Byner, Loni Anderson, Ned Beatty, Parker Stevenson, Warren Stevens

Summary: Stroker Ace (Burt Reynolds), a popular NASCAR driver, clashes with the fried-chicken mogul that sponsors his racing team.

Director: Hal Needham

Genre(s): Action, Sport, Comedy, Romance

Rating: PG

Runtime: 96 min

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Gary Arnold

A knuckleheaded but amiable summer trifle, Stroker Ace is aimed straight at Burt Reynolds' vast heartland public. Read full review

Roger Ebert

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. Read full review

Vincent Canby

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. Read full review

Terry Kelleher

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]

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

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. Read full review

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KVTheCritic

Sep 6, 2020

Just a straight up bad movie. Nothing special to it. The second half is tolerable but not worth the misery you'll experience in the first 30-45 minutes.

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