<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $25 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $16 million (US) </Td> </Tr> <P> Over the Top is a 1987 American sport drama film starring Sylvester Stallone . It was produced and directed by Menahem Golan, and its screenplay was written by Stirling Silliphant and Stallone . The original music score was composed by Giorgio Moroder . The main character, played by Stallone, is a long - haul truck driver who tries to win back his alienated son while becoming a champion arm wrestler . </P> <P> Lincoln Hawk (Sylvester Stallone) is a struggling trucker who arm wrestles on the side to make extra cash while trying to rebuild his life . Hawk's estranged wife Christina, who is very ill, asks that Hawk pick up their son Michael from military school so that the two of them can get to know each other; Hawk had left them ten years earlier . Michael's controlling grandfather Jason Cutler, a wealthy man who hates Hawk and disapproved of his daughter's relationship with him, believes that Hawk has no right to be in his grandson's life . Michael is very distrusting and bitter towards Hawk initially and treats him with contempt at every turn . </P>

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