The Last American Hero

“Instead of a white stallion, he rode a full race, powder blue stocker.”

Elroy Jackson Jr. (Jeff Bridges) has spent his young life running moonshine and outdriving the law. When he quits the business to go racing, no one around him can say why a good hell raiser would give that up. Lamont Johnson, adapting Tom Wolfe's essay on Junior Johnson, follows Elroy toward the stock car circuit, and the film keeps asking how much of himself he will spend to win.