Hoosiers

Pros: The lead performances; The music; The sports footage; The movie's outcome
Cons: The romance between Hershey and Hackman

Movies are made around many different themes and events. Some movies are more realistic, while some involve fantasy. Some are strictly comical in nature, while others are based on a real- life event from history. Among my favorite themes for a movie ...

Pros: great cast, impressive story with perfect pacing, extremely realistic, well written
Cons: none

As the film opens with Norman Dale driving through the Indiana countryside, Hoosiers sets itself up immediately as a movie depicting what it is like to be part of a small town. Hickory is indeed the embodiment of an American small town in 1952, ...

Pros: One of the best, if not the best, sports movie ever made
Cons: Totally predictable and the awkward romance between Hackman and Hershey

Is there really much debate as to which sports film is the best? Sure, some will say it’s Rocky and others might throw out Raging Bull. However, without a doubt, the correct answer is Hoosiers. It’s a timeless classic that while totally ...

Pros: Strong performances, great sports film
Cons: A few plot holes and characters

I have always loved basketball. Basketball, being the extremely fast-paced sport that it is, always leaves its crowd hanging on the edge of its seats. Well, we might not say that after the recent bust-up in Detroit, but that is another story ...

Pros: Old-fashioned quaintness, happy ending
Cons: The romance seemed totally out of place

I usually end up liking sports movies since I played sports myself. The players in movies, though maybe not realistic, also seem to be of better moral character than reality. Seeing this movie at the same time as the NBA playoffs were going on made the...

Pros: Team focus, Leadership
Cons: Why was Barbara Hershey in this anyway?

When I first saw this movie several years ago, it was just a cute basketball movie. I thought it was pretty good and tugged just a bit at the heartstrings. However, when a group assignment in my school MBA program required us to find and present a...

Pros: Stellar acting; cinematography; focus on deeper issues more than basketball
Cons: 80's-inflected synth music; plot with few surprises

Most sports movies seem to focus more on the trials and tribulations of the team and its members, the ups and down of the season, and even some of the emotions that people experience during the pennant race, the run to the Finals, or whatever challenge ...

Pros: Great performances, depth, feel-good movie
Cons: Unnecessary love story; irrelevant to the movie

Sports movies have always been a tough genre to rise up in. While the story is there, the movie needs to tell what happens both on and off the court or field, and many movies fail on this. Sports movies based on true stories are even harder to make,...

Pros: Strong characters, well-developed story
Cons: It's primarily a star vehicle for Gene Hackman and Dennis Hopper.

Based on a true story, "Hoosiers" is about a backwoods basketball team and the coach who takes them to the State championship against overwhelming odds.

In the fall of 1952, Gene Hackman arrives at Hickory High School...

Pros: Great story
Cons: A little predictable

"Hoosiers" is the ultimate basketball movie. It's the story of a big time coach who looses his way in a big city and moves to a small town to start over. He's a tough coach and his team has to swallow a tough pill by playing the coach's way....

Pros: everything
Cons: nothing

I have seen several sports/drama movies and “Hoosiers” (1987) is the perhaps the best of its genre that deserves to be called a masterpiece. Hoosier is a word that means both “anything large of its kind” and “a native or resident of Indiana”. This...

Pros: Good, enjoyable underdog story; good script, good perfromances, good looking film
Cons: Too safe

"Hoosiers" is a film that will appeal to all basketball fans, but it is more than just a sports movie. It is a film about an underdog team that rises to victory, led by a disgraced coach who has been given a second chance.

Norman...

Pros: good sport movie
Cons: no one knows about it!

Indiana basketball is something looked upon fondly by most of the nation.
Hoosiers is a movie that should be watched by the entire family. It is a feel good movie that is based on fact.
Gene Hackman does a superb job of becoming the coach you...

Pros: Make ya wanna stand up and cheer
Cons: beginning a little slow

This is one of my all-time favorite movies. We used to watch it annually before our first game of the season in High School. Although I am now 10 years removed from that time, I still love this movie.

I have this movie in my collection and...

Pros: great story, very inspirational, great acting
Cons: none

It's not every day that you find a movie that you could watch over and over and over and not get tired of. But with Hoosiers, I have found that movie. Hoosiers is an inspirational story of a small Indiana high school(Hickory High) that does the...