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Tucker: The Man and His Dream

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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A 1988 Biopic directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Jeff Bridges as maverick 1940s automaker Preston Tucker.The film follows Tucker as he tries to launch his car company and produce the Tucker Torpedo, and gets investigated by the SEC for stock fraud and questionable fundraising.Though well received by critics, it was a notorious box office bomb.
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Awesome, but Impractical: How Tucker's critics see his designs. Tucker proves otherwise and shows that his cars and vehicles are functional and operational. During the war, the military rejected the "Tucker Tiger", an armoured Jeep/Tank hybrid on the grounds that the car went faster than specified.
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Author Appeal: Both Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas's fathers owned Tuckers.
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Author Avatar: Tucker is obviously one for Coppola, in the manner with which how he has his family involved in his work, prides himself as an independent-thinking idealist opposed to larger forces and his lament at the end that large businesses will drive away visionaries.
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