F.I.S.T.

Stallone likes to depart from his customary muscle image from time to time. Often it fails (RHINESTONE, PARADISE ALLEY), but sometimes he succeeds, as in this interesting (albeit somewhat flawed) drama of a Hoffa-like trade union leader. He's a serious and moral young man who is corrupted by the machinations of the labor movement as he rises, eventually assuming the mantle of boss in the Federation of Inter-State Truckers (F.I.S.T., in case you were wondering where the title sprang from). Based on a series of articles by Eszterhas, the movie details the story of a trucker's rise in the movement to heights undreamed of. The picture begins in the late 1930s and follo...