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76 out of 100

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8.1 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 15 Ratings

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  • Starring: Barbara Hershey, Gene Hackman
  • Summary: A man (Hackman) gets a last-chance job coaching a small-town Indiana high-school basketball team and faces the dual challenge of bringing this underdog team to the 1951 state championship and redeeming himself from a mysterious past. (MGM)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 13
  3. Negative: 1 out of 13
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    100
    In the way it combines sports with human nature, it reminded me of another wonderful Indiana sports movie, "Breaking Away." It's a movie that is all heart.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    60
    An involving tale about the unlikely success of a smalltown Indiana high school basketball team that paradoxically proves both rousing and too conventional.
  3. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Pat Graham
    30
    What matters most is feeding white-bread fantasies (the film is set in the slow-footed 50s, when blacks are only a rumor and nobody's ever heard of slam 'n' jam) and laying on the inspirational corn.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. Ryan
    10
    Sweet movie. One you can watch over and over.
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  2. JanaB.
    10
    This movie is the best sports movie ever!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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