Hoosiers

Nov 14, 1986

1h 54m

★ 7.0

They needed a second chance to finish first.

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Family

Production Companies

Orion Pictures

De Haven Productions

Hemdale Film Corporation

Hoosiers Trailers

Cast

Coach Norman Dale

Gene Hackman

Myra Fleener

Barbara Hershey

Shooter

Dennis Hopper

Cletus

Sheb Wooley

Opal Fleener

Fern Persons

George

Chelcie Ross

Rollin

Robert Swan

Rooster

Michael O'Guinne

Reverend Doty

Wil Dewitt

Sheriff Finley

John Robert Thompson

Preacher Purl

Michael Sassone

Millie

Gloria Dorson

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