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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.
December 1, 1964 in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
26 October 1942, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
18 February 1963, Indiana, USA
10 April 1921, Erick, Oklahoma, USA
2 August 1938, Huntington, Indiana, USA
28 August 1967, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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.
February 09, 2006
Cloyingly nostalgic.
March 21, 2007
Basketball movies don't get any better.
August 05, 2008
[A] compelling, enjoyable yarn.
June 03, 2010
The kind of corny and manipulative pic that makes me glad I'm not a basketball fan.
January 02, 2011
A tale of heroic sportsmanship.
March 21, 2007
Shameless, yes, but open your eyes, close your mind, sit back and enjoy.
October 29, 2008
The filmmakers are at the top of their game.
March 21, 2007
Bobby Knight would not be amused, though Tark the Shark might've had a good laugh at the naive masquerade.
March 21, 2007
Pic belongs to Hackman, but Dennis Hopper gets another opportunity to put in a showy turn as a local misfit.
August 01, 2008
Hackman is wonderful as an inarticulate man tense with the struggle to curb a flaring, mysterious anger.
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.