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Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Widescreen, Theatrical Version, Trailers, Special Edition
This uplifting crowd-pleaser follows an unorthodox high school basketball coach (Gene Hackman) and the town drunk (Dennis Hooper) as they join forces to lead their underdog team all the way to the state championship.System Requirements:Starring: Gene Hackman, Barbara Heshey, Dennis Hooper, Sheb Wooley, Fern Persons, Chelcie Ross, Robert Swan, Michael O'Guinne, and Wil Dewitt. Directed By: David Anspaugh. Running Time: 115 Min., Color. This film is presented in both "Widescreen" and "Standard" formats. Copyright 2000 MGM Studios.Format: DVD MOVIE
Editor's Note
Based on the incredible true story of how a small-town high school's basketball team became Indiana State Champs in 1954. This film follows the controversial outsider who came to town to teach high school history and coach basketball and who was not afraid to make big waves in a small pond. Academy Award Nominations: Best Supporting Actor--Dennis Hopper, Best Original Score.
Plot Summary
Basketball is king in the small town of Hickory, Indiana, so local residents are outraged when the new coach makes a few unorthodox choices concerning the high school team. But the coach's mixture of patience and toughness eventually wins over the town, and succeeds in delivering the athletes to the state championship.
| Features | Region 1 | | Keep Case | | Full Frame - 1.33 | | Letterbox - 1.85 | | Widescreen - 1.85 | | Audio:
| Dolby Digital 5.1 - English | | Dolby Digital Mono - French | | Dolby Digital Mono - Spanish | | Additional Release Material:
| Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer | | Additional Products:
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| Entertainment Reviews
 | Hoosiers - DVD Review By: Pete Croatto - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 5/1/2009 5:39 PM | |
It’s very simple. When you talk about the best sports movies of all time, there is Hoosiers, and then there’s everything else. Hoosiers stars Gene Hackman as Norman Dale, a former successful college coach with a checkered past, who takes a last chance job coaching small Hickory High in 1951. Despite being located in basketball-crazed Indiana, the Huskers only have six players and they’re missing their star, Jimmy Chitwood, a troubled boy who doesn’t say much. His soft shooting touch does all of the talking. Dale doesn’t endear himself to the locals, dismissing the team’s interim coach and a player in about two minutes during his first practice....read the full review |
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Release Information
|  | Studio: MGM |
| Release Date: 3/3/2009 |
| Running Time: 115 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1987 | | Catalog ID: 106407 | | UPC: 00027616801821 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...Irresistible....HOOSIERS is about as sweetly unself-conscious as a film can be..." 02/27/1987 p.C10Variety
"...HOOSIERS is an involving tale....[The] lensing is excellent....[The] score is engaging and uncharacteristically throbbing..." 10/15/1986 Los Angeles Times
"...It's as engaging, as modest, as utterly American and as thrilling as the true-life story it's based on..." 12/11/1986 p.C1 Total Film
"...There's lots to like..." 11/01/2003 p.128 Premiere
"Immensely enjoyable....For those viewers who have dreamed of sinking that last big shot, or get misty-eye when their favorite team wins it all, HOOSIERS will look like a masterpiece." 03/01/2005 p.114 |
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