| Richard Brody
Staff writer  Jeff Bridges in “Tucker: the Man and His Dream.” “Tucker: The Man and His Dream,” from 1988, is an overlooked treasure in Francis Ford Coppola’s seven-decade filmography that plays like a realistic prelude to the visionary fantasy “Megalopolis,” which I reviewed this week. In Coppola’s latest film, an architect confronts hostility to his utopian urban-planning project; “Tucker” is a rowdy yet earnest bio-pic of the real-life automotive genius Preston Tucker (played by Jeff Bridges), who, in the late nineteen-forties, devised an innovative car meant to challenge the major Detroit automakers. Tucker then founds a company to manufacture it and soon encounters fierce political opposition. Bridges brings boisterous fervor and wry, explosive energy to the role of the inventor, who leads a team of engineers and craftspeople. Like Coppola’s filmmaking, Tucker’s enterprise is inseparable from family life. Coppola directs with verve and swing that, without masking Tucker’s hard fate, thrums with the power of the industrialist’s ideas and exalts his place in history. | 
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