Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States, United Kingdom
The story
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.
- high school
- indiana
- usa
- sports
- parent child relationship
- son
- based on true story
- basketball
- coach
- high school sports
- hoosier
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Gene Hackman
Norman Dale
Barbara Hershey
Myra Fleener
Dennis Hopper
Wilbur "Shooter" Flatch
Sheb Wooley
Cletus Summers
- Maris Valainis — Jimmy Chitwood
- David Neidorf — Everett Flatch (#21)
- Brad Long — Buddy Walker (#14)
- Steve Hollar — Rade Butcher (#25)
- Brad Boyle — Whit Butcher (#43)
- Kent Poole — Merle Webb (#12)
- Wade Schenck — Ollie McLellan (#13)
- Scott Summers — Strap Purl (#53)
- Fern Persons — Opal Fleener
- Chelcie Ross — George Walker
- Robert Swan — Rollin Butcher
- Directed
- David Anspaugh
- Written
- Angelo Pizzo
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 612 ratings
- Studio
- De Haven Productions, Hemdale Film Corporation
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