Over the Top (1987)

David Mendenhall: Michael Cutler

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• Michael Cutler : I don't believe this. All that talk about never giving up is all lies. You never believed it yourself. And what you said to me, remember? "Now is the time to do it for yourself". "The world meets nobody halfway". "If you want it, you gotta take it".

  Lincoln Hawk : Mike, please. I...

  Michael Cutler : Now is your chance, dad, don't you see? I don't care about what happened before, so you can stop trying to prove yourself to me. It doesn't matter if you win or lose, dad. I don't care about that. All I care about is being with you, dad... and I love you!

• Michael Cutler : If I went with you, where would we go? Where would we end up?

  Lincoln Hawk : Together is all I can guarantee. I'm just a father who messed up pretty bad, I know that. I've done things real wrong, now I want to try fix things up as best I can. I want to give... you... what's inside of me. I may not have much and I may never have a lot. But I've got something inside I want to give to the only person that means something to me... you.

• Lincoln Hawk : You know, if you're hungry, there's a great place up here for good steak. What do you say we stop?

  Michael Cutler : Sir, you're going to be the victim of cholesterol poisoning. Later in life, you'll just start to rot away.

  Lincoln Hawk : You're just full of good humor, aren't ya Mike?

• Michael Cutler : I'd like to say something, sir.

  Lincoln Hawk : Sure.

  Michael Cutler : This truck is disgusting!

  Lincoln Hawk : I don't know, Mike. It's just old.

• Michael Cutler : How long will it take?

  Lincoln Hawk : Well, I've got one more pick up. And say, two to three days, we'll be in California. And your mother doesn't go into surgery, say, until Wednesday morning.

  Michael Cutler : Do you really think you can make up 10 years in two to three days?

  Lincoln Hawk : No, I don't think so.

• Bob 'Bull' Hurley : What are you doing with that guy?

  Michael Cutler : He's my father.

  Bob 'Bull' Hurley : Too bad.

• Michael Cutler : All you wanted to do was embarrass me. Well, you did it, okay? Grandfather always said you were a loser! Now you're trying to make me one and I hate you for it!

  Lincoln Hawk : Mike, I don't care what your grandfather thinks about me, okay? All I care about is you! Now, you lost back there because you beat yourself, you told yourself you couldn't win. You're my boy, now go back there and win!

• [last lines] 

  Michael Cutler : Why don't we just start our own trucking company? You know, we could call it "Son and Hawk".

  Lincoln Hawk : Son and Hawk?

  Michael Cutler : Yeah, I like it.

  Lincoln Hawk : That's not too bad. Well, how do you think "Hawk and Son" sounds?

  Michael Cutler : Hawk and Son?

  Lincoln Hawk : What do you think of that?

  Michael Cutler : Hawk and Son? Hawk and Son! Hey, I... I think it just might work.

  Lincoln Hawk : Come on.

  Michael Cutler : Hey, can I drive later, dad?

  Lincoln Hawk : You're an equal partner, aren't you?