Hoosiers

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Summary: One of the greatest movies you will ever see
Review: America is such an awesome place to live. One of the great things about America is the American Dream. Hoosiers is a masterpiece tale of an American Dream.

In 1954 the Hickory Hoosiers pulled off basketball history. They went all the way from that little home town to win the state championship in one of the greatest basketball states in the union. No small school had ever one before and the Hoosiers changed that. This is there awesome tail in one of the most powerful movies you will ever see.

Gene Hackman is great as Coach Dale. Hackman is one of the greatest living actors. He just becomes his charcters. When one of his charcters gets mad and he gets that tone in his voice I get goosebumps and just say wow. He's a powerful presence on screen. This is one of the greatest roles he ever played and I really thought he should have been Oscar nominated for it.

Dennis Hopper is great as the town drunk. He was one of my favorite characters in the movie. As the boys are doing the unthinkable on the court he does the unthinkable with his life. He stops drinking and starts acting like a man.

All the guys who played boys on the team were great. I liked the guy who played Jimmy a lot. High expectations were put on him with the film. He's believable as the country boy sharpshooter and he helps make the movie. I like the guy who plays Ollie. I have the VHS of Hoosiers and on the cover you see him on the shoulders of his teammates with his hands in the air. That's a beautiful scene. I also like the kid who played Hoopers son in the film. He does a good job with his character.

Hoosiers is a powerful film. It's a great cast and the basketball is great in the film. It's one of the best movies you will ever see and this is a film that everybody should see. It's one everybody should own, and I've never met a person who didn't like it. I cried in the movie. It's that good and I'm not afraid to admit that. You won't regret buying this one.

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Summary: This is a great movie!
Review: If I had to make a list of my five favorite movies, Hoosiers would be among them. The first time I saw it I was engaged right from the opening credits. Everything about Hoosiers gives one the feeling of being in small-town midwestern America of the 1950's, and the performances given by everyone in the production are so true that one is convinced that those people really do exist. Gene Hackman, Dennis Hopper, and even the actors who portray the basketball players are thoroughly believable. I have watched the DVD several times since buying it, and I am as moved and excited each time as I was the first time I saw the movie.
The DVD contains no special features, unfortunately, and though it has subtitles in French and Spanish it does not have an English subtitle. This would have been helpful, given that one of the actors has a tendency to speak in low tones, and I sometimes have difficulty understanding him. The lack of any DVD bonus features was the only factor in my decision to give it four stars, because the film itself surely merits five stars, no question. If you want a movie that is both exciting and moving, Hoosiers is a sure bet.

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Summary: Hoosiers is spectacular, motivational, and exciting
Review: After hearing and reading many good things about this movie, I decided that I had to watch it. Hoosiers was a wonderful movie that inspired me.

Hoosiers is about a small town basketball high school team in Indiana. This basketball team just hired a new coach, and his name is Norman Dale. Dale had a troubled past, and his fiery temper was one factor that got him in serious trouble. He had punched a player of his. That was a long time ago, though, more than 10 years before he decided to take on this new job. He didn't coach basketball for many years, and he was doubted by the local community in the small Indiana town where he would coach.

The coach quickly establishes himself as the boss of team, and his dogmatic attitude demands respect. He coaches his players hard, and he says "I don't make my practices for your enjoyment." He dismisses a rude player during the first practice (who was talking while he was) and tells the old coach that he's out. The old coach tells him that he hopes that Dale fails as a coach. In the first game of the season there are only 6 boys on the team. This first game provides a very memorable moment. One of the players doesn't listen to the coach and wants to shoot before passing. So the coach takes him out. Then another player gets injured, and the player who was out just walks back in. The coach tells him, "Where are you going?" The player is forced to sit back down, and the coach plays with only 4 guys on the court.

This movie is an inspirational classic. When one former basketball sharp shooter doesn't want to play because his old coach died, Dale says he won't pursue him. This basketball player is the best one, and rarely misses his shots. He decides to come back though at a pivotal moment in the movie, when Dale's career is in jeopardy. After that, the team takes off. The rest of the movie show's how one team's heart and determination brought out the best of them. Hoosiers about an unlikely victory by a tiny school with an enrollment of less than 100 over a large high school with over 1500 students. It's an amazing story, and this sports movie is the greatest one I've ever. Hoosiers is a must-see classic for all basketball fans.

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Summary: One of the best sports movies out there...
Review: Hoosiers is the tale of disgraced college basketball coach Norman Dale (Hackman), as he leads a small town high school team in Indiana to glory, battling biased fans, drunk assistant coaches and the system along the way.
This is a quality sports movie, which cannot be said about many, and with solid work from many smalltime actors is made into a memorable one. The small town story resembles that of Larry Bird's rise to fame as a Boston Celtic, and this is a movie you will want to watch many more times.

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Summary: The standard all basketball movies are measured by
Review: Hoosiers is, in my opinion, quite possibly the best sports-themed movie of all-time. Gene Hackman and Dennis Hopper give great performances as a coach down to his last chance and an alcoholic looking for something to turn his life around respectively. The movie does include a lot of the tired cliches we've come to expect from sports movies (ie. the last second shot at the end of the big game, the bench player with a chance to be the hero, the players not understanding their coach, but slowly coming around, etc.). What's amazing though is even if you do know how the movie's going to end, you can't help but get caught up in the magical trip of the basketball team from the small little high school of Hickory. It's amazing how many coaches in all sports show this movie to their teams in order to get them pumped up for a big game. If you're a fan of basketball, sports movies, or just good movies in general, you owe it to yourself to check out "Hoosiers."

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Summary: a knock out basket ball movie
Review: Hoosiers is AWSOME 5 stars all the way Great movie. I personally
am not a big fan of Basketball. But this is good.

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Summary: Magical
Review: From the opening scenes of this film--majestic shots of a car traveling the rural midwest on a crisp autumn morning--HOOSIERS serves notice to the viewer that he or she is in for a wonderful movie experience. Set in a tiny Indiana town half a century ago, HOOSIERS captures the look and feel of rural Americana, of a hardworking people with a single commonality: their love for basketball. The pure innocence of this film, innocence long lost over the subsequent decades, is magical.

Gene Hackman portrays Coach Norman Dale, an outsider who comes to basketball-crazy Hickory, Indiana, to coach the high school team. Haunted by mistakes made in his past, Dale is eager for the second chance he has been given. Immediately, his no-nonsense, stress-the-fundamentals coaching philosophy puts him at odds with the town, yet Dale refuses to compromise his principles. He survives--barely--a petition for his ouster, and the rest of the movie warmly portrays the town of Hickory and its high school basketball team coming together, a team that makes a magical run through the Indiana State Tournament.

Barbara Hershey as Myra Fleener, Hickory's assistant principal, and Sheb Wooley as superintendent/principal Cletus--the man who hires Dale--are solid. Yet Dennis Hopper gives the best performance as Wilbur "Shooter" Flatch. Shooter, a former great player himself and father of one of the boys on Coach Dale's team, is the town drunk; despite his alcoholism, his knowledge of the game is immense, and Dale enlists his aid. The reformation of this character--the feeling and depth that Hopper gives this role--is exceptional.

Director David Anspaugh gives us a sensational "feel good" movie, augmented by Jerry Goldsmith's powerful musical score. HOOSIERS tells a beautiful story, so magical in its depiction you'll be cheering from your chair. Highly recommended.

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Summary: Earns the Title of Classic
Review: This movie defines the genre. There are no cliches in it; it created the cliches that lesser filmmakers use now when they make sports movies. This movie gets you jumping up off your seat at the end every time you watch it. You want this little David team to beat the big, bad Goliaths so bad you can feel it. This movie is not just about a little team that beats a big one; it works because it humanizes each player on the "little" team, and so we cheer when each one rises to the occasion to overcome his particular short-coming: the shorty, the preacher's son, the son of the drunk, the doubting Thomas. Hooray! Hooray! Let's watch it again!

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Summary: Underachieving film about overachievers
Review: This film starts out promisingly with some beautiful photography showing Indiana in the fall. It soon bogs down to repetitious basketball footage and cliche characters going about their wretched lives pointlessly. If you like shots of basketballs bouncing off of backboards, this film might be entertaining. To me, it was like being hit in the face continually with a basketball for the better part of two hours.

Oh well, it beats watching the NBA.

Rating:
Summary: One of the best
Review: This is a great movie for anyone who loves Basketball.