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Hoosiers (1986)
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Hoosiers

1986Directed by David Anspaugh1h 54m

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.

  • Drama
  • Family

Cast

  • Gene Hackman as Norman Dale
  • Barbara Hershey as Myra Fleener
  • Dennis Hopper as Wilbur 'Shooter' Flatch
  • Sheb Wooley as Cletus Summers
  • Maris Valainis as Jimmy Chitwood
  • David Neidorf as Everett Flatch (#21)
  • Brad Long as Buddy Walker (#14)
  • Steve Hollar as Rade Butcher (#25)
  • Brad Boyle as Whit Butcher (#43)
  • Kent Poole as Merle Webb (#12)
  • Wade Schenck as Ollie McLellan (#13)
  • Scott Summers as Strap Purl (#53)
  • Fern Persons as Opal Fleener
  • Chelcie Ross as George Walker
  • Robert Swan as Rollin Butcher
  • Michael O'Guinne as Rooster

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