| Hoosiers |  | Director: David Anspaugh
Actors: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper, Sheb Wooley, Fern Persons
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  136 reviews
Sales Rank: 2,120
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 114 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: TM2559
ISBN: 0792843592
UPC: 027616801821
EAN: 9780792843597
ASIN: 0792843592
Theatrical Release Date: November 14, 1986
Release Date: February 29, 2000
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Product Description
Based on the true story of a small-town Indiana team that made the state finals in 1954, this movie chronicles the attempts of a coach with a spotty past, and the town's basketball-loving drunk to lead their high school team to victory.
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One of the most rousingly enjoyable sports movies ever made, this small-town drama tells the story of the Hickory Huskers, an underdog basketball team from a tiny Indiana high school that makes it all the way to the state championship tournament. It's a familiar story, but sensitive direction and a splendid screenplay helped make this one of the best films of 1986, highlighted by the superb performances of Gene Hackman as the Huskers' coach, and Oscar nominee Dennis Hopper as the alcoholic father of one of the team's key players. As the drama unfolds we come to realize that many of the characters (including Barbara Hershey as a schoolteacher with whom Hackman falls in love) are recovering from disappointing setbacks, and this depth of character is what makes the otherwise conventional basketball story so richly rewarding. Like Rocky, Rudy, and Breaking Away, this is a quintessentially American movie about beating the odds and rising above one's own limitations. Just try to watch it without cheering! --Jeff Shannon
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 Classic Basketball at It's Best July 8, 2010
Dan Burke (Hotchkiss, CO, US)
Basketball and for that matter any sports minded person should have this as part of their collection to show future grand children. It was how high school basketball can be the focal point of any small town. Sure it is corny at times but that was life back then when life seemed a little simpler. I truly believe that this was one of Gene Hackman's best acting performances.
 Heart, Hardwork, Teamwork, America June 3, 2010
Katherine McCarthy (Forest Hills, NY United States)
RIP Dennis Hopper. I dug out "Hoosiers" to relive what I feel - personally - was your greatest performance. Dennis Hopper brings all his skills to this supporting role as the town drunk. All the tingling nerves, insecurity, lost destiny, passion, and even though flawed, still admirable if only for a little, imperfect, while. Great work!
There are so many wonderful reviews I really have little more to add. I'm not from Indiana. I didn't know what Hoosier meant until I first saw this film years ago. I'm not a basketball nerd. To me, it's not really a sports film. It's a human film. The sports and basketball are just the metaphors.
It's about having heart. Intestinal fortitude. Overcoming obstacles. Putting all the effort in learning and executing the basics. Being part of something bigger than yourself. Give more. Not less. What we used to call American values. Before the "Me Generation". Before Red States and Blue States. It's about pulling together.
"Hoosiers" gives it all back to us in one improbable, albeit true, story. It hooks you early, and keeps you for the duration, and yes, if you are not cheering or crying at the end, give it up, have someone check your pulse, you are definitely dead. RIP for you, too.
Redemption. Second chances. Hoping against hope. Working hard to make it happen. I've seen "Hoosiers" no less than a dozen times. Gets me every time, and keeps me to the end. The acting - Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper, and all the guys on the basketball team who's names I really don't know - is realistic and on point.
Don't you wish Norman Dale could put the showboaters in the NBA through the basics?
inspired by Butler to buy this.... May 6, 2010
Mark Mark (south bend, IN)
have liked this movie for years. Seeing Butler in the title game inspired me to buy it. The case has a basketball feel to it. Couldve bought it on blu-ray but the case sold me. perfect!
 Buy the 2-disc Collector's Edition, not the Blu-Ray April 25, 2010
Jerome Bush (Louisiana)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Buying the blu-ray of this cherished film is a veritable waste of money. Pitiful transfer. I almost sold my 2-disc Collector's Edition after buying the blu-ray; then I saw the blu-ray version I'd purchased and wisely kept the Collector's Edition.
No extras to speak of (unless you like the trailers) with the blu-ray edition. The Collector's Edition has the original game and plenty of deleted scenes. Someone here mentioned that it was an older film so it couldn't be transferred well: tell that to the people who redid the 1951 "A Christmas Carol." It can be done. It just takes time, care, and money.
I see the price of the blu-ray has gone down to $8. What a surprise...
It's Not Over 'Til It's Over! March 15, 2010
Phoebe Stogstill (by the shores of Gitchee Goomie)
I find myself scratching my head and wondering why I NEVER SAW THIS MOVIE when it came out in 1986. "Retro Phoebe" is enthralled during opening scenes as she witnesses first one, then many classic automobiles cruising Indiana backroads. The action is set in the early 1950s and sets and costuming are very good and authentic. We are intrigued as Norm (Gene Hackman) comes to the small town of Hickory to take on a teaching and basketball coaching position at the high school. As he makes contact with the man who hired him (Sheb Wooley) we wonder about his mysterious past and why he has not been teaching or coaching in his recent history but has been a chief pettit officer in the Navy instead. There are many townspeople also curious about this and many including Myra (Barbara Hershey, assistant principal) are back-biting and rude to his face. The good people of Hickory are steeped in tradition, isolated, suspicious of outsiders and stuck in the rut of "our way or no way." They do not understand Norm's methods of tough love for his new team, nor do they see the wisdom of his psychological techniques: he kicks members off the team for insubordination and tells them not to come back until they are ready to play by his rules, he refuses to be bullied by town fathers and bars them from the locker room and gym, he does not actively recruit the dormant star player of past years, knowing that the young man must return on HIS OWN TERMS to be effective as a player, as he has gone through traumas and cannot be pushed. The team is so small that they don't even have enough players and one is very short, but effective as many short BB players can be by their ability to weave in and out of the larger players. Norm builds up a sense of pride in them and cooperation. He teaches them to play as a team instead of a bunch of individual independents. We cringe as Norm is kicked out of game after game by a biased referee. Enter "Shooter." Shooter is a basketball expert and father of one of the team members. He is a chronic alcoholic who lives in a shack in the woods, a source of constant embarassment to his son. Norm encourages him to clean himself up and be his "right hand man." Dennis Hopper plays this role in one of his most brilliant performances on screen. The town of Hickory has had it by now, with Norm and tries to get him ousted as coach.
This does not work and the team continues to improve and go on to tournament ball. Somehow they are able to make it to state. This reviewer is taking note of the tenseness of her own body, the tightening of muscles as she views the scenes of exciting basketball. My own High School basketball team had this same experience and I attended all of the exciting games even the ones in the state capitol. This is a wonderful movie about perserverance and the role of NORM is played to perfection by Mr. Hackman. In the end we see how Norm has such a kind heart not only for his team members but in helping the town see the error of their ways in judging others, including Shooter. A marvelous movie, I might say.
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