Over the Top (1987)

Plotzle Original · Puzzle #8 · March 9, 2026 · Action / Drama

Six plot descriptions for Over the Top (1987). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A detective investigates a series of thefts in a coastal town and the evidence points to someone in his own precinct as the harbor district becomes increasingly hostile to outside law.
2. An aging stuntman accepts increasingly dangerous film work to pay for his daughter's education and his body deteriorates as the productions demand more extreme physical performances from him.
3. A truck driver competes in an arm wrestling championship in Las Vegas while attempting to reconnect with his estranged son and win prize money to improve his financial situation.
4. Two brothers compete in underground bare-knuckle tournaments across rural Texas while their father gambles away their combined winnings and the family ranch slips closer to foreclosure each week.
5. A woman joins a militant activist group planning to disrupt a pipeline construction site but her husband works as a foreman on the project and neither knows the other's involvement.
6. A cargo pilot delivers medical supplies to remote Alaskan villages and begins drinking heavily after his co-pilot dies in a crash he believes he caused through negligence.