Driven (2001)

Indycar-kampioen Beau Brandenburg krijgt met Jimmy Bly een te duchten tegenstander voor de nieuwe wereldtitel. Joe Tanto, een renner wiens carrière door een zwaar ongeluk voortijdig werd afgebroken, krijgt de opdracht Jimmy klaar te stomen voor de strijd. Een strijd die overigens naast de omloop wordt verdergezet want Beau en Jimmy dingen ook om de gunsten van de weelderige Sophia.

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Sylvester Stallone wrote the screenplay for this action-packed drama directed by Renny Harlin and set in the dangerous, high-stakes world of CART auto racing. Jimmy Bly (Kip Pardue) is an up-and-coming young star of the open-wheel circuit, but he's slipping in the rankings as the championships loom. Under pressure from his promoter brother Demille (Robert Sean Leonard) and wheelchair-bound owner Carl Henry (Burt Reynolds), Jimmy is given a mentor -- Joe Tanto (Stallone), a once great CART competitor whose career and marriage to Cathy (Gina Gershon) were destroyed by a tragic accident. Joe must earn the rookie's t...
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rust, while attempting a career comeback, dealing with persistent reporter Lucretia Clan (Stacy Edwards), and facing Cathy, who's remarried to rival racing sensation Memo Moreno (Cristian de la Fuente). Meanwhile, Jimmy is stirring up his own romantic trouble by pursuing Sophia (Estella Warren), the girlfriend of top driver Beau Brandenburg (Til Schweiger). Long interested in creating a car racing drama, Stallone penned Driven after abandoning a film biography of real-life Formula One legend Ayrton Senna.
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