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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, French, Spanish, Subtitled
Nominated for two Oscars and hailed by Sports Illustrated and ESPN as one of the best sports movies of all time, this triumphant tale of a high school basketball team's long-shot attempt to win the state championship is filled with edge-of-your seat suspense and breathless excitement! Featuring "fast-break cinematography that catches the pace of the game" (The Washington Post) and powerful performances from Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey and Dennis Hopper, Hoosiers is "a winner" (Boxoffice)!
"...a well-made slice of Americana..." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
"...one of the best re-creations ever of the early-'50s Midwest." Mike Clark, USA Today
"...as engaging, as modest, as utterly American and as thrilling as the true-life story it's based on." Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times
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 | Audio: English Dolby Digital 4.0 Surround Sound, DTS HD 5.1 Surround Sound | | Audio: Spanish, French Dolby Digital Mono | | Dubbed: Spanish, French | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: French, Spanish | | This Is A Blu-Ray DVD Made For Blue-Laser Format Players Which Produce Higher Quality Picture And Sound |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Foxvideo |
| Release Date: 4/14/2009 |
| Running Time: 115 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1987 | | Catalog ID: 107146 | | UPC: 00027616071460 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Nominee (1987) | | | Golden Globe, Dennis Hopper, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | | | Independent Spirit Awards, David Anspaugh, et. al., Best First Feature | | | Oscar, Jerry Goldsmith, Best Music, Original Score | | | Oscar, Dennis Hopper, Best Supporting Actor |
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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 The Washington Post 8 of 10
Hoosiers pits the country Cinderellas of Hickory High against the players of an Indianapolis powerhouse in the 1951 state championship...But fancy shots alone don't win the game any more than fancy shots make a picture. You gotta have heart -- you gotta rebound, bounce back, come from behind like Rocky and The Natural. Here, the heart is Dennis Hopper and Gene Hackman as a couple of appealing losers who get a second chance. Hackman, with his common-man charisma, has the leading role as a once-successful collegiate coach barred from the big time for slugging one of his own players. - Rita Kempley
The Chicago Sun-Times 10 of 10
There is a passion to high school sports that transcends anything that comes afterward; nothing in pro sports equals the intensity of a really important high school basketball game. Hoosiers knows that...Hoosiers is a comeback movie, but it's not simply about the comeback of this small team, the Hickory Huskers. It's also about the comeback of their coach, a mysterious middle-age guy named Norman Dale (Gene Hackman), who seems to be too old and too experienced to be coaching in an obscure backwater like Hickory... What makes Hoosiers special is not its story, however, but its details and its characters. Angelo Pizzo, who wrote the original screenplay, knows small-town sports. He knows all about high school politics and how the school board and the parents' groups always think they know more about basketball than the coach does. - Roger Ebert
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