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70% Critic Match
Hoosiers
“They needed a second chance to finish first.”
7.0 / 10• 1986• 1h 54m•PG• English
DramaFamily
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Gene Hackman
Norman Dale
Lead
Barbara Hershey
Myra Fleener
Dennis Hopper
Wilbur "Shooter" Flatch
Sheb Wooley
Cletus Summers
Maris Valainis
Jimmy Chitwood
David Neidorf
Everett Flatch (#21)
Brad Long
Buddy Walker (#14)
Steve Hollar
Rade Butcher (#25)
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. David Anspaugh's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. Hoosiers is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
