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Hoosiers

They needed a second chance to finish first.

1986 · PG · 1h 54m

Directed by David Anspaugh

7.0

TMDB audience score
622 votes, out of 10

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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 Hackman
    Norman Dale

  • Barbara Hershey
    Myra Fleener

  • Dennis Hopper
    Wilbur 'Shooter' Flatch

  • Sheb Wooley
    Cletus Summers

  • Maris Valainis
    Jimmy Chitwood

  • David Neidorf
    Everett Flatch (#21)

  • Brad Long
    Buddy Walker (#14)

  • Steve Hollar
    Rade Butcher (#25)

  • Brad Boyle
    Whit Butcher (#43)

  • Kent Poole
    Merle Webb (#12)

  • Wade Schenck
    Ollie McLellan (#13)

  • Scott Summers
    Strap Purl (#53)

  • Fern Persons
    Opal Fleener

  • Chelcie Ross
    George Walker

  • Robert Swan
    Rollin Butcher

  • Michael O'Guinne
    Rooster

  • Wil Dewitt
    Reverend Doty

  • John Robert Thompson
    Sheriff Finley