ACTORS: Gene Hackman, Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey
PLAYERS: None of note
DIRECTOR: David Anspaugh
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Top 10 Best
Movies of All-Time - Jon Teitel
"Basketball on the grassroots level: a small town high school in
Indiana. The reason that many championships are decided in a tournament
format (are you listening, BCS?!) is because it is the great equalizer.
Your team might be able to beat my team 99 times out of 100, but
tournaments allow us to see if that 1% is ready to show itself. The
best part is that it is based on the real-life 1954 Milan High School
team and its road to a miraculous state championship. The movie is
sappy, and slow at times, and does not display a diverse set of main
characters, but Gene Hackman is the epitome of a disciplinarian coach
whose players would run through a brick wall for him, and Dennis Hopper
looked drunk enough to be nominated for an Oscar. I also defy you to
find a better movie basketball shooter than Jimmy Chitwood: I don’t know
if he can rebound, or play defense, or glide to the hoop, but the man
can shoot the rock!!"
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