Tucker
After his attempts to further push the boundaries of cinema with One from the Heart resulted in a financial disaster, director Francis Ford Coppola spent much of the 1980s looking towards the past. Period pieces like Peggy Sue Got Married and The Outsiders saw the filmmaker providing glimpses into the past, to varying degrees of critical success. He continued his fixation on bygone eras with his 1988 motion picture Tucker: The Man and his Dream. Though set in the 1940s, it was a yarn that also paralleled experiences Coppola himself was having in the then-modern world. Continue Reading →