Days of Thunder

1990 • 107 minutes

About this movie

...comes on like thunder! It's a winner! - Joel Siegel, WABC-TV/New York "****Best movie of the summer!" - Steve Kmetko, KCBS-TV/Los Angeles From the engine roar and fever pitch of professional stock car racing, Days of Thunder explodes with the most spectacular racing action ever captured on film. Tom Cruise plays race driver Cole Trickle, whose talent and ambition are surpassed only by his burning need to win. Discovered by businessman Tim Daland (Randy Quaid), Cole is teamed with legendary crew chief and car-builder Harry Hogge (Academy Award. winner Robert Duvall) to race for the Winston Cup at the Daytona 500. A fiery crash nearly ends Cole's career and he must turn to a beautiful doctor (Nicole Kidman) to regain his nerve and the true courage needed to race, to win and to live.

Ratings and reviews

One of the VERY few realistic racing movies that has is actually a good movie... everything that "Driven" was trying to be. Somehow that made going around in circles interesting.

This movie is my childhood favourite soo many memories watching this as a kid on vhs

When Tom Cruise still made good movies.