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Hoosiers

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Original title

Hoosiers

Year

1986

Running time

114 min.

Country

United States

Director

David Anspaugh

Screenwriter

Angelo Pizzo

Cast

Music

Jerry Goldsmith

Cinematography

Fred Murphy

Producer

Cinema '84, Hemdale. Distributor: Orion Pictures

Genre

Drama | 1950s. Sports. Basketball

Synopsis

Coach Norman Dale gets a last-chance job coaching a small-town Indiana high-school basketball team and faces the dual challenge of bringing this underdog team to the 1951 state championship and redeeming himself from a mysterious past.

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Awards: 1986: Academy Awards: 2 Nominations for Best Supporting Actor (Dennis Hopper) & OST

1986: Independent Spirit Awards: Nominated for Best First Feature

1986: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Best Supporting Actor (Hopper)

1986: Golden Globes Awards: nominated to Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture.

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Critics' reviews

"It's as engaging, as modest, as utterly American and as thrilling as the true-life story it's based on"

Sheila Benson: Los Angeles Times
"In the way it combines sports with human nature, it reminded me of another wonderful Indiana sports movie, 'Breaking Away.' It's a movie that is all heart."

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"Yet much of the movie's validity stems from time and place recreated with such authenticity that you can sense the wet chill in the morning air and the new wax pungent on the old gym floor"

Rita Kempley: The Washington Post
"An involving tale about the unlikely success of a smalltown Indiana high school basketball team that paradoxically proves both rousing and too conventional."

Variety Staff: Variety
"This is one of the best re-creations ever of the early-'50s Midwest"

Mike Clark: USA Today
"There is enough intelligence and craftsmanship in the execution of Hoosiers to make it seem, if not exactly fresh, at least respectably entertaining"

Dave Kehr: Chicago Tribune

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