In These Days of Thunder

We need your help in nominating us for The Podcast Awards The People’s Choice. Through the end of July listeners can go to the website available in the show notes and vote for us in the TV & Film category. Click the Blue Button and begin nominating shows. Thank you and we love you. Here is the link: https://www.podcastawards.com Today we are talking about probably one of our most quoted movies. With gems like, “DRIVE THROUGH THE SMOKE COLE!”, and “I want you to hit the pace car”, Days of Thunder is filled with great scenes and lines. (Most delivered by Robert Duvall) The 1990 film directed by Tony Scott and starring Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall, Nicole Kidman, Randy Quaid, Cary Elwes, Michael Rooker and John C. Riley is about a young hot shot stock car driver gets his chance to compete at the top level. Harry Hogge: [speaking to Cole condescendingly about engines] “Now Cole, when that little needle goes up into the red and reads *nine thousand RPM*, that's bad!” Some of our favorite parts of this movie are: The producers and writer spent two years researching the film Many of the stories were pulled from real life events Tony Scott, Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer often held up filming fighting Robert DuVall is perfect in this film Many actresses turned down the role of Claire Lewicki Special thanks to our editor Geoff Vrijmoet for this episode and Melissa Villagrana for helping out with our social media posts. Next week’s film will be Lady Driver (2020) available on Netflix Subscribe, Rate & Share Your Favorite Episodes! Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of Dodge Movie Podcast with your host, Mike and Christi Dodge. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review.