Hoosiers (1986)
Hoosiers is one of the best basketball movies I’ve ever seen. Everybody especially that people who lived in Indiana knew what meant Hoosiers Hysteria.
This is a truly story about basketball team from a provincial secondary school of Indiana state. Those guys made their way to top ranking and went down in history of Indiana.
This basketball movie is directed by David Anspaugh. In 1987 it was nominated for 2 Oscars.
This basketball movie is directed by David Anspaugh. In 1987 it was nominated for 2 Oscars. The movie won Special Achievement Award and LAFCA Award.
Gene Hackman stared there as Norman Dale.
Dale came in the team as a new coach with disrepute. His friend Cletus offered him this job knowing it was the last chance for Norman. And it turned to be the right decision because Dale became exactly that person who brought the glory to the team.
Hickory’s community like much of the state was crazy about basketball. It was a pity that Jimmy Chitwood – the best player in town – couldn’t take part in championship. So everybody tried to make him change his mind.
Because of Dale being the bad coach many players refused to participate in training. His style of coaching was too slow and too defensive. That’s why enrollment seemed to be so small that Dale had very few players on his squad.
Norman needed a new assistant and invited for this job a well-known basketball fan named shooter. He was an alcoholic father of one of the team players. It confused the citizens and especially Shooter’s son. For “Hoosiers” there were no chances to win but at the last second Jimmy took a speech and said he was ready to play in the game but only under condition that Dale remained as a coach. From that moment Hickory became an unstoppable team. Coach Dale’s team advanced through tournament play.
Everybody was shocked getting known that the team reached the state championship. And in 1954 they won the championship cup.
So that team really came to success and could strike down any Goliath it faces.
I watched a lot of basketball movies and there are many good movies. But this one impressed me so much that I watched it again and again. The depth of psychological types and really interesting story make excellent integral movie.
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