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'''''Hoosiers''''' is a 1986 film about Indiana high school basketball. [[Gene Hackman]] stars as Norman Dale, a former big-time college basketball coach who comes to tiny Hickory, Indiana to coach Hickory High's very tiny basketball team. Hackman must overcome his own troubled past, win over the skeptical Hickory townsfolk, and get his players to believe in themselves. In his spare time he romances Barbara Hershey.
''Hoosiers'' was added to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2001.
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* [[The Alcoholic]]: Shooter (played by [[Dennis Hopper]]).
* [[Ate His Gun]]: Narrowly averted off-screen. After Shooter fell off the proverbial wagon ''hard'' one night, during which time he'd humiliated Coach Dale and the entire Hickory team during an important game of theirs, he was later found by Coach Dale and his son, unconscious in a field somewhere with his rifle, having apparently passed out before he could use it on himself. They take him to the hospital to dry out, where he recovers, earning his son's respect for the first time in the process.
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* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Coach Dale has settled for a job at rinky-dink Hickory because he was run out of college basketball for punching one of his players.
* [[David Versus Goliath]]: [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]]. Quoted verbatim, in fact: "... and David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and flung it, and it struck the Philistine in the head, and he fell to the ground. Amen."
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* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Count how many shots Jimmy Chitwood takes, and how many of them he makes, over the course of the movie.
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* [[Underdogs Never Lose]]
* [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]: Inspired by the Milan Indians team that won the Indiana high school basketball championship in 1954. However, much was changed and fictionalized for the movie, starting with the name of the town. The real coach was 26 years old and in his second season with the team. And the real championship was not so shocking: Milan made the semifinals the year before.
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