Hoosiers

IMDb link: 0091217
IMDb rating: 7.4 (56,959 votes)
Genres: Drama, Sport
Director: Dennis Hopper, David Anspaugh
Cast: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Sheb Wooley and others

Release date: 27 Feb 1987
Release year: 1986
Runtime: 114 minutes
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Keywords: coach, high school, small town, high school basketball, 1950s, based on true story, drunkenness, indiana, underdog, father son relationship

Plot:

Failed college coach Norman Dale (Gene Hackman) gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to direct the basketball program at a high school in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher (Barbara Hershey) 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 (Dennis Hopper), a notorious alcoholic.

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