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Eye of the Tiger (1986)

Eye of the Tiger poster
Directed by
Richard C. Sarafian
Genre
drama film, action film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
R
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 62 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An ex-convict returns to his hometown after being wrongly imprisoned. He finds a biker gang terrorizing the community with the help of a corrupt sheriff, so he fights back against them.

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What happens

Eye of the Tiger is a 1986 American action film directed by Richard C. Sarafian, and stars Gary Busey, Yaphet Kotto, Denise Galik, Seymour Cassel, William Smith, and Judith Barsi. Busey plays a wrongfully incarcerated ex-convict who fights back against the biker gang harassing his hometown and the crooked sheriff protecting them. The film marked the beginning of the actor's transition to the action roles that would epitomize his career for much of the late 1980s and 1990s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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