Hoosiers

About Hoosiers

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 notor…

Hoosiers is a 1986 drama family film directed by David Anspaugh. Its themes are basketball, son, high school sports, and coach.

Gene Hackman appears as Norman Dale, Barbara Hershey as Myra Fleener, Dennis Hopper as Wilbur "Shooter" Flatch, and Sheb Wooley as Cletus Summers. At 114 minutes long, it arrived in November 1986.

The screenplay is by Angelo Pizzo. The story is adapted from real events. It streams on Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Prime Video with Ads in the United States.

Remember the Titans, Nowhere to Be Found, and Warrior Strong make useful companions to Hoosiers, all filed under head coach and high school. TMDB voters put it at 7.0 out of 10 across 617 votes and it carries a PG rating.