Hoosiers

Docudrama | English | 115 minutes

Info

Hoosiers is based on the Milan High School team that won the 1954 Indiana state championship. Norman Dale, a former college basketball coach with a tarnished reputation, arrives in small-town Hickory, Indiana to coach the high school basketball team. He is immediately faced with a fractious group of players and a teacher, Myra Fleener, who convinces the star player to quit the team and focus on his studies. Dale appoints his friend, the school principal, Cletus Summers, to be his assistant. When Summers has a heart attack, Dale reluctantly hires Wilbur “Shooter” Flatch, a player’s alcoholic father, to be the new assistant. In the face of community distrust and a divided team, Dale perseveres in his efforts to create a championship team, and, more importantly, repair his reputation.

Cast

Gene Hackman (Norman Dale) / Barbara Hershey (Myra Fleeter) / Dennis Hopper (Shooter Flatch) / Sheb Wooley (Cletus Summers)

Why Stream This Film?

Any film about a good man, with a failed, checkered past, who finds redemption and success in a small, obscure farm town, is worth seeing. And Hoosiers is one of the best.

Rotten Tomatoes Score (Critics Consensus): 89%
Metacritic Score: 76

Accolades

Academy Awards: Nominated, Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Dennis Hopper); Best Music, Original Score (Jerry Goldsmith)
Golden Globe Awards: Nominated, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Dennis Hopper)
American Cinema Editors: Nominated, Best Edited Feature Film (Carroll Timothy O’Meara)