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Hoosiers (1986)

Directed by David Anspaugh

Drama | Sports

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Overview

Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school basketball team in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher persuades star player Jimmy Chitwood to quit and focus on his long-neglected studies, Dale struggles to develop a winning team in the face of community criticism for his temper and his unconventional choice of assistant coach: Shooter, a notorious alcoholic.

Rated PG | Length 114 minutes

Actors

Gene Hackman | Barbara Hershey | Dennis Hopper | Sheb Wooley | Fern Persons | Chelcie Ross | Robert Swan | Michael O'Guinne | Wil Dewitt | John Robert Thompson | Michael Sassone | Gloria Dorson | Mike Dalzell | Skip Welker | Eric Gilliom | Robert Boyle | Jerry D. Petro | Sam Smiley | Tom McConnell | Dennis Farkas | Tim Fogarty | Spyridon Stratigos | Ken Strunk | Jerry D. Larrison | Thomas W. Marshall | Gary Long | C.W. Mundy | Jeff Moster | Ralph H. Shively | Rich Komenich | Scott Miley | Robert Sutton | Ray Crowe | Ray Craft | Tom Carnegie | Hilliard Gates | Laura Robling | Nancy Harris | Libbey Schenck | Brad Boyle | Steve Hollar | Brad Long | David Neidorf | Maris Valainis | Kent Poole | Wade Schenck | Scott Summers | The Travel-Aires

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Viewing Notes

Gene Hackman R.I.P. + March Madness = a rewatch of HOOSIERS.

Loosely based on a true story, it’s definitely manipulative with all the sports cliches intact. Still, Hackman makes it an engaging watch. Funny that Dennis Hopper got an Oscar nomination for this film instead of BLUE VELVET, which came out the same year.

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