MAR 16 · CELEBRATING GENE HACKMAN
Hoosiers
A film by David Anspaugh
w/ Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper
Rated PG
1hr 54min
CELEBRATING GENE HACKMAN (1930 - 2025)
Failed college coach Norman Dale (Gene Hackman) gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to direct the basketball program at a high school in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher (Barbara Hershey) 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 (Dennis Hopper), a notorious alcoholic.
Much of its appeal comes courtesy of Gene Hackman, whose work here -- a canny mix of aw-shucks bluster and below-the-surface slyness -- was a warm-up for the career-best performance he would deliver two years later in Mississippi Burning.
Matt Brunson
Film Frenzy
This film has so much heart. Every time I watch it, I am on the verge of tears for almost the entire runtime.
Chris Stuckmann
MAR 16 · CELEBRATING GENE HACKMAN
Hoosiers
A film by David Anspaugh
w/ Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper
Rated PG
1hr 54min
CELEBRATING GENE HACKMAN (1930 - 2025)
Failed college coach Norman Dale (Gene Hackman) gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to direct the basketball program at a high school in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher (Barbara Hershey) 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 (Dennis Hopper), a notorious alcoholic.
Much of its appeal comes courtesy of Gene Hackman, whose work here -- a canny mix of aw-shucks bluster and below-the-surface slyness -- was a warm-up for the career-best performance he would deliver two years later in Mississippi Burning.
Matt Brunson
Film Frenzy
This film has so much heart. Every time I watch it, I am on the verge of tears for almost the entire runtime.
Chris Stuckmann
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