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Hoosiers
The life of Norman Dale, a miserable basketball coach whose life is boring and useless, has been changed completely, when he receives an offer of training a high school basketball team, the thing that inspires his entirely life, but he faces many challenges and hardships, after choosing a drug addict as his assistant, but he goes above all expectation and make the final score.
2 April 1921
12 October 1931
18 February 1963, Indiana, USA
10 April 1921, Erick, Oklahoma, USA
2 August 1938, Huntington, Indiana, USA
25 September 1919, Norwalk, Connecticut, USA
9 December 1963, Lebanon, Indiana, USA
December 1, 1964 in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
24 November 1962, Los Angeles, California, USA
30 January 1930, San Bernardino, California, USA
June 03, 2010
The kind of corny and manipulative pic that makes me glad I'm not a basketball fan.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.August 05, 2008
[A] compelling, enjoyable yarn.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.October 29, 2008
The filmmakers are at the top of their game.March 21, 2007
Basketball movies don't get any better.January 02, 2011
A tale of heroic sportsmanship.August 01, 2008
Hackman is wonderful as an inarticulate man tense with the struggle to curb a flaring, mysterious anger.March 21, 2007
Pic belongs to Hackman, but Dennis Hopper gets another opportunity to put in a showy turn as a local misfit.February 09, 2006
Cloyingly nostalgic.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
Shameless, yes, but open your eyes, close your mind, sit back and enjoy.