Heart Like a Wheel

Quite good.

Conventional but excellent biopic/sports movie, very engaging from start to finish, owing much to the great performances. Anthony Edwards and Beau Bridges give her a real run for her money, but end up eating Bonnie Bedelia's dust. She is truly an awesome actress.

Well-made study of an obsession, with the usual racing thrills.

I don't give a damn about racing -- or about any sports -- but I think this movie is wonderful. I watch my copy over and over again, never tiring of it. Bedelia gives one of the greatest "quiet" performances I ever saw, of one woman's struggle to be what she was born to be, and Bridges is damn near perfect as one of the classic characters in fiction -- the lovable scoundrel