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    Hoosiers (1986)

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    An Indiana high school basketball team triumphs in a classic underdog story based on a real-life incident (and aren’t they always).

    A cool reception greets former army man Norman Dale when he arrives in Hickory to coach the high-school basketball team. Distrusted by the players and the community, Dale’s gruelling methods and volatile attitude soon make him enemies.

    hoosiers8However, being a man of principle and stubborn with it, he refuses to compromise, whether the players win or lose.

    Set in 1951, it’s a finely drawn study of postwar American mores, evocatively scored by Jerry Goldsmith and sharply directed by first-timer David Anspaugh, a TV director whose credits include Hill Street Blues and St Elsewhere.

    Gene Hackman is the coach who turns his boys into disciplined players, while Dennis Hopper (pictured) barely broke a sweat in his Oscar-nominated performance as the alcoholic father of one of the boys (method acting?).

    People from Indiana are known as “Hoosiers”, which was this film’s US title – it was renamed Best Shot for UK audiences.

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    Norman Dale
    Gene Hackman
    Myra Fleener
    Barbara Hershey
    Shooter
    Dennis Hopper
    Cletus Summers
    Sheb Wooley
    Opal Fleener
    Fern Persons
    Jimmy Chitwood
    Maris Valainis
    Whit
    Brad Boyle
    Rade
    Steve Hollar
    Buddy
    Brad Long
    Everett
    David Neidorf
    Merle
    Kent Poole
    Ollie
    Wade Schenck
    George
    Chelcie Ross
    Rollin
    Robert Swan
    Rooster
    Michael O’Guinne
    Sheriff Finley
    John Robert Thompson

    Director
    David Anspaugh

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