Film · Drama, Family
Hoosiers (1986)
They needed a second chance to finish first.
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.
- Director
- David Anspaugh
- Writers
- Angelo Pizzo
- Country
- United States, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Release date
- November 14, 1986
Cast
Gene HackmanNorman Dale
Barbara HersheyMyra Fleener
Dennis HopperWilbur 'Shooter' Flatch
Sheb WooleyCletus Summers
Maris ValainisJimmy Chitwood
David NeidorfEverett Flatch (#21)
Brad LongBuddy Walker (#14)
Steve HollarRade Butcher (#25)- Brad BoyleWhit Butcher (#43)
- Kent PooleMerle Webb (#12)
Wade SchenckOllie McLellan (#13)- Scott SummersStrap Purl (#53)
Fern PersonsOpal Fleener
Chelcie RossGeorge Walker- Robert SwanRollin Butcher
- Michael O'GuinneRooster
- Wil DewittReverend Doty
- John Robert ThompsonSheriff Finley
- Michael SassonePreacher Purl
Gloria DorsonMillie
