Hurley backdrop
Hurley poster
Trailer
Hurley
4.8
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1h 22m
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2019
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Released
Overview
In the world of 1970s car racing, Hurley Haywood was cool, calm and collected. A five-time 24 Hours of Daytona winner, three-time Le Mans winner and Trans-Am champion, Haywood was a Hollywood archetype: a strikingly handsome man brought up by a good Midwestern family. Yet Haywood was often overshadowed by racing partner and volatile mentor, Peter Gregg—the Batman to his Robin—whose abrupt suicide in 1980 shook the sport to its core. And yet Haywood had secrets of his own. Despite multiple encounters with women, some that included public appearances alongside Penthouse models, he remained elusive about his personal life. With deft use of archival footage and exclusive interviews featuring actor and fellow racer, Patrick Dempsey, Hurley reveals a greater insight into Haywood’s tightrope walk between career and sexuality, while posing the question—will motorsport ever be ready for openly LGBT racers?

Cast
Hurley Haywood poster
Hurley Haywood
Self
Patrick Dempsey poster
Patrick Dempsey
Self
Peter Gregg poster
Peter Gregg
Self (archive footage)
Frank Stella poster
Frank Stella
Self
Sam Posey poster
Sam Posey
Self
Patrick Long poster
Patrick Long
Self
Jim Busby poster
Jim Busby
Self
JC France poster
JC France
Self
Bill Warner poster
Bill Warner
Self

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