before this movie i do not know anything about preston tucker or his car . therefor i can judge this movie only by it entertainment value and not by it historical accuracy . ever since the godfather and apocalypse now i have be a big coppola fan . i like the fact that like martin scorcese he keep look for visual experiment . remember the mirror scene in peggy sue get married . that be never do before . or the way time be use in rumble fish . the staging of one from the heart . original and dare . in tucker coppola go to visual extreme . the whole movie look like a big commercial for tucker himself and it all work great . the story an honest underdog must fight against the system remind u of the work of frank capra . the always brilliant jeff bridge be a very ( or maybe too ) likable hero . in the beginning he maybe a little bit too unreal until you see how he react when he find real trouble on his way . then he become more human . but the real drama in this movie come from martin landau . his scene in which he confess that he catch tucker dream be a move one . the way he get accept into tucker family be so natural . besides landau i like almost all the cast . frederic forrest and mako and joan allen and christian slater and lloyd bridge their role aren not earthmoving and but work very well in the whole picture . tucker meeting with howard hughes ( dean stockwell ) be pure magic . together with the godfather part i and ii and rumble fish and apocalypse now i consider tucker represent a man and his dream to be coppola best work . too bad it not available on dvd anywhere in europe . positive .