Hoosiers
Inspired by the true story of the Indiana small town that achieves a great success in the basketball champion, as Norman Dale, a failure basketball coach, who has a miserable life, till once he receives an offer of training a high school basketball team and he accepts, the thing that brings terrible for him upon choosing a drug addict as his assistant.
18 January 1972, New Castle, Indiana, USA
2 April 1921
25 September 1919, Norwalk, Connecticut, USA
5 February 1948, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
December 1, 1964 in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
26 October 1942, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
2 August 1938, Huntington, Indiana, USA
12 October 1931
14 June 1962, USA
30 May 1915
15 February 1931, Columbus, Indiana, USA
28 August 1967, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
June 03, 2010
The kind of corny and manipulative pic that makes me glad I'm not a basketball fan.March 21, 2007
Shameless, yes, but open your eyes, close your mind, sit back and enjoy.February 09, 2006
Cloyingly nostalgic.October 29, 2008
The filmmakers are at the top of their game.April 22, 2012
An enjoyable, if conventional and manipulative small-town sports melodrama, boasting strong turns from Gene Hackman and Dennis Hopper, who received his only acting nomination for his part.August 01, 2008
Hackman is wonderful as an inarticulate man tense with the struggle to curb a flaring, mysterious anger.March 21, 2007
Bobby Knight would not be amused, though Tark the Shark might've had a good laugh at the naive masquerade.January 02, 2011
A tale of heroic sportsmanship.March 24, 2008
The setting in early 1950s Indiana adds nice texture to the story, but the endless games with the usual ups and downs outstay their welcome.March 21, 2007
Pic belongs to Hackman, but Dennis Hopper gets another opportunity to put in a showy turn as a local misfit.August 05, 2008
[A] compelling, enjoyable yarn.March 21, 2007
Basketball movies don't get any better.