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Hoosiers
starring: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper, Sheb Wooley, Fern Persons
directed by: David Anspaugh

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Team Marketing
EAN: 9780792843597
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792843592
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 29, 2000
Running Time: 114 minutes
Sales Rank: 5509
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: November 14, 1986

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Description:
Nominated* for two OscarsÂ(r) and hailed by Sports Illustrated and ESPN as one of the best sports movies of all time, this triumphant tale of a high school basketball team's long-shot attempt to win the state championship is filled with edge-of-your-seat suspense and breathless excitement! Featuring 'fast-break cinematography that catches the pace of the game.

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One of the most rousingly enjoyable sports movies ever made, this small-town drama tells the story of the Hickory Huskers, an underdog basketball team from a tiny Indiana high school that makes it all the way to the state championship tournament. It's a familiar story, but sensitive direction and a splendid screenplay helped make this one of the best films of 1986, highlighted by the superb performances of Gene Hackman as the Huskers' coach, and Oscar nominee Dennis Hopper as the alcoholic father of one of the team's key players. As the drama unfolds we come to realize that many of the characters (including Barbara Hershey as a schoolteacher with whom Hackman falls in love) are recovering from disappointing setbacks, and this depth of character is what makes the otherwise conventional basketball story so richly rewarding. Like Rocky, Rudy, and Breaking Away, this is a quintessentially American movie about beating the odds and rising above one's own limitations. Just try to watch it without cheering! --Jeff Shannon

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- "You Are All Winners in My Book"
Gene Hackman tells the boys that as they are about to take part in the state championship game at Butler stadium. Basically, he is with them, win or lose.

Hackman plays Norman Dale, a last chance basketball coach who was a national title winner in his university coaching days, however, his career ended suddenly. He was in the navy for the last few decades and here is his opportunity to get back into basketball. He comes to the small town of Hickory Indiana with a high school population of 65 students to coach and teach at the school. All the town ever thinks about is basketball. Some are stuck in the failure they had in their youth.

Dale has to face the challenge of a lack of respect from the kids, the parents and the whole town. There are glimmers of hope as one kid who walked off the court is brought back by his dad and apologizes. The story is, hey just let him coach. Hickory ... Read More

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- Hoosiers - the best sprots movie around
This is the best sprots that I have ever seen. The producers probably did the movie an injustice with the decision not to include some of the deleted scenes that are on the feature DVD. Specifically the harvest scene and the scene where Buddy is allowed back on the team. The movie makers were very smart to use actual basketball players - the athletic action was superb. Buy the DVD set.

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- Last Chance at Redemption
Hoosier is a great sports movie and great storytelling. Shot in 1986 as a early 50s period piece, it will remain timeless. Hoosiers is the standard underdog sports movie, but a carefully crafted script with complex characters, great acting, and a superb music score lift it far above most of the other films in the genre.

Hoosiers is also the story of two men's struggle for redemption. A mature aspect of the script is that Coach Dale is not portrayed as wrongly accused or even justified in his prior actions. He really did do something dreadful as a coach a decade previously and he continues to struggle against the same impulses that threaten to destroy his life. This makes him sympathetic to one of the player's father who is wrecking all the lives around him with a different self-destructive compulsion.

Beyond a wonderful small town story of victory against all odds, Jerry Goldsmith wrote an ... Read More

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- The king of all sports movies...
I often lament about the fact that sports movies in general are repetitive and clichéd and that there are rarely any truly inspirational and or original attempts at the genre. In fact, aside from `Friday Night Lights' I have yet to be truly impressed with a sports movie really. That was all until I saw `Hoosiers' last night, a film that I had avoided because of the whole `sports movie' stigmata and just really felt it was going to be yet another sappy true story with all the same dynamics as every other sappy true story.

I was wrong.

Yes, `Hoosiers' follows a familiar formula when it comes to telling the story of the Hickory Huskers, and Indiana high school basketball team that rises to greatness under the wing of their new coach Norman Dale. What sets the film apart though are the wonderfully fleshed out characters that add weight and depth to the film. It flows the same as most sports ... Read More

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