
Hoosiers
- released:1986-11-14
- genres: Drama, Family
- duration:114m
- casts: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper, Sheb Wooley, Fern Persons
- Country: United States of America
- Production: Orion Pictures, De Haven Productions, Hemdale Film Corporation
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.