Movies - Driven

	Movies - Driven

Driven is a 2001 movie directed by Renny Harlin and starring Sylvester Stallone.

The movie was filmed at a variety of races on the CART schedule, but some, including Chicago, Motegi, Detroit, and Germany, are no longer on the schedule: Chicago Motor Speedway's financial operations were suspended after CART's last race there, Motegi, like many of CART's teams, left for the Indy Racing League after 2002. Detroit was removed from the CART schedule after the 2001 season due to lack of road surface, and Germany was suspended after CART competitor Alex Zanardi lost his legs in a crash with Alex Tagliani with 13 laps to go. Zanardi would come back to finish those 13 laps in a specially modified Champ Car when CART (as of right now, under the name Champ Car) made it's first (and last, to date) appearance at the EuroSpeedway. It should be noted that in Driven, the German race took place on a road course, but in fact, the CART race is on an oval.

The movie premier took place at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, with several CART competitors driving and demonstrating pit stops in modified Champ Cars down Hollywood Blvd. The movie only met modest success, but fared better than director Harlin's last three films, Deep Blue Sea
, The Long Kiss Goodnight
, and the critical and financial failure, Cutthroat Island
. The movie made mixed reviews, with people for the most part saying it was a good movie that needed quite a bit of improvement. The movie later spawned a video game of the same name, which, like it's silver screen counterpart, only met modest success.

Plot

In a parallel universe where CART racing is popular in the United States, rookie race car driver Jimmy Bly (Kip Pardue) is letting the pressure of winning and the pressure of a relationship get to him. He's started to fall in the rankings when he initially had so much promise. Former CART champion Joe Tanto (Sylvester Stallone) is called in to help Bly out of the slump that he's in.

Criticism

The movie didn't receive good reviews from motor racing fans, since the movie has numerous glaring errors including: :Champ cars don't have start keys, :You don't suddenly decide to floor it half way down the straight :the quarters scene was a travesty :the Nürburgring track was never part of the CART calendar, and, :most of all, the accidents shown are very unlikely to happen in real CART racing.

Cast

Sylvester Stallone
- Joe Tanto
Burt Reynolds
- Carl Henry
Kip Pardue
- Jimmy Bly
Stacy Edwards - Lucretia Clan
Til Schweiger
- Beau Brandenburg
Gina Gershon
- Cathy Heguy
Estella Warren
- Sophia Simone

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