Hoosiers
Film
West Lafayette Red Devils...football team in the state tournament, the basketball team will begin the year with eight players. "I feel like Gene Hackman in the movie 'Hoosiers,' " Wood said. But when the defending sectional champions get back to full force, Wood's... In this article: Gene Hackman and Hoosiers |
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Boiled Sports | 4 days ago
It's Hard To Adjust To Being Irrelevant, Part 2
...that Indiana University football is. We could start there and point out that two sub-.500 Purdue teams have now hung 100 points on the Hoosiers over the past two Bucket meetings. And how they actually think this was a step forward with some...
In this article: Kelvin Sampson, Purdue, Big Ten, NCAA, Hoosiers, Bob Knight, and All rights reserved
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LA Daily News | 5 days ago
Cal State volleyball rejected
...and Chaffey might be the last visiting team to play in the old Seahawk gym. "The gym looked like an old movie set in the film `Hoosiers.' The floor was old, water stains on the ceiling and walls and the lights shined a faded...
In this article: Montclair High School, San Bernardino, Cattle, Revenue, and Damien High School
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Indy Star | November 20, 2009
Indiana jobless rate ticks to 9.8%
...improvements and (in some sectors) really dramatic improvements. ... It's still too early to say that Indiana is out of the woods." Hoosiers who have previously exhausted their unemployment benefits and remain unemployed may file for the...
In this article: Unemployment, Indianapolis, Indiana University, Chrysler, Honda, and General Motors
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Detroit Free Press | November 19, 2009
Mick McCabe: Hudson QB makes the right plays
Luma told them they were going to go for the two-point conversion and the win. That is when Smith made like Jimmy Chitwood in the movie "Hoosiers." Smith said he thought he could score on the "keep-in" play. "I faked to my fullback and then...
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NBC | November 19, 2009
Hoosiers may file for federal unemployment extension Monday
Indianapolis - Hoosiers who have previously exhausted their unemployment benefits and remain unemployed may file for the new federal unemployment extension beginning Monday. The federal government enacted the up to 20-week extension of...
In this article: Unemployment and Indianapolis
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Chicago Sun-Times | November 19, 2009
Learning how to be a family
...pantheon of unabashedly sentimental but undeniably inspirational sports films, it stands shoulder to shoulder with the likes of "Rudy" and "Hoosiers." 'THE BLIND SIDE' Warner Bros. Pictures presents a film written and directed by John Lee...
In this article: The Blind Side, The Blind Side, Sandra Bullock, Michael Lewis, Erin Brockovich, and Memphis
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UFC | November 16, 2009
Amir Sadollah and the Fickle Nature of Thick and Thin
...the fight was moved to the main card has caught Sadollah's attention, but only barely-he sounds like Coach Norman Dale from the movie Hoosiers when you ask him about it, a man with no time for anything superfluous. "Obviously the Octagon is...
In this article: Phil Baroni, Johny Hendricks, Las Vegas, Docket, UFC 106, UFC 101, Trademark, and Zuffa, LLC
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The Parthenon | November 11, 2009
Fouled Off: Motivation from the Little Giants
...come, and sports movies are particularly good at speaking to the opportunities at hand. When I played basketball, it was the film Hoosiers that got me prepared to play. I wanted to be like Jimmy Chitwood in every way, especially if the...
In this article: Little Giants, Thundering Herd, UCF Knights, Conference USA, Cowboys, Minnesota Twins, and Disney
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Chicago Sun-Times | November 09, 2009
Long road to Indy
...adding freshman point guard Avery Bradley, the Longhorns are in position to bounce back after under-achieving last year. Talk about a Hoosiers remake. Butler, whose famed fieldhouse was used in the movie, has a chance to make a...
In this article: Michigan State, John Calipari, Kansas, Kentucky, Purdue, Texas, Michigan State, and Big Ten
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Arizona Daily Star | November 08, 2009
Greg Hansen : Ex-Rincon coach cheers for WNMU alma mater
...the unforgettable pleasure of leading his team, the Rochester High School Zebras, through the gauntlet made famous in the movie "Hoosiers." The Zebras reached the semifinals against South Bend Central, coached by John Wooden. "We trailed by...
In this article: Purdue, Rincon High School, Tucson, Boilermakers, and King Brown
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Description from Wikipedia:
Hoosiers is a 1986 film about a small-town Indiana high school basketball team that wins the state championship.
The story is set during 1951, when all high schools in Indiana, regardless of size, competed in one state championship tournament. It is very loosely based on the story of a real Indiana team of that period, the Milan High School team that won the 1954 state championship.
Gene Hackman stars as Norman Dale, a new coach with a spotty past. It co-stars Barbara Hershey, Sheb Wooley and Dennis Hopper as a basketball-loving town drunkard, a performance that brought Hopper an Oscar nomination.
The movie was written by Angelo Pizzo, who would go on to co-produce the underdog sports movie Rudy, and directed by David Anspaugh, who directed that film. The score was composed by Jerry Goldsmith, who was also nominated for an Oscar for Best Music, Original Score.
Hoosiers was ranked number 13 by the American Film Institute on its 100 Years... 100 Cheers. The film was the choice of the readers of USA Today newspaper as the best sports movie of all time. In 2001, Hoosiers was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
In June 2008, AFI revealed its "Ten top Ten" — the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres — after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. Hoosiers was acknowledged as the fourth best film in the sports genre.
A museum to commemorate the real life achievements of the 1954 Milan team has been established.
Hoosiers was re-titled as Best Shot in the United Kingdom.
- Name:
- Hoosiers
- Release Date:
- November 14, 1986
- Directed By:
- David Anspaugh
- Produced by:
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- Angelo Pizzo
- Carter DeHaven
- Written By:
- Angelo Pizzo
- Starring:
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- Wade Schenck
- Kent Poole
- Steve Hollar
- Gene Hackman
- Dennis Hopper
- Sheb Wooley
- Brad Long
- Barbara Hershey
- Maris Valainis
- Music By:
- Jerry Goldsmith
- Distributed By:
- Orion Pictures
- Length:
- 115 min.
- Language:
- English
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