Movie
Hoosiers
They needed a second chance to finish first.
Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school basketball team in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher 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, a notorious alcoholic.
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Hoosiers opened in theaters November 14, 1986. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.
Synopsis
Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school basketball team in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher 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, a notorious alcoholic.
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Cast
Gene HackmanNorman Dale
Barbara HersheyMyra Fleener
Dennis HopperWilbur "Shooter" Flatch
Sheb WooleyCletus Summers
Maris ValainisJimmy Chitwood
David NeidorfEverett Flatch (#21)
Brad LongBuddy Walker (#14)
Steve HollarRade Butcher (#25)Credits
- Directed by
- David Anspaugh
- Written by
- Angelo Pizzo
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $9M
- Box office
- $28.6M
Production
- De Haven ProductionsUnited States
- Hemdale Film CorporationUnited Kingdom