Hoosiers (1986)
"They needed a second chance to finish first."
Critics Score
🎬 84%
(RT: 90%, MC: 77) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Sheb Wooley as Cletus
Fern Persons as Opal Fleener
Robert Swan as Rollin
Michael O'Guinne as Rooster
Is Hoosiers good?
It's divisive. Only 68% of audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 84%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
