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 notorious alcoholic.

The Crew

Gene Hackman

Coach Norman Dale

Barbara Hershey

Myra Fleener

Dennis Hopper

Shooter

Sheb Wooley

Cletus

Fern Persons

Opal Fleener

Chelcie Ross

George

Robert Swan

Rollin

Michael O'Guinne

Rooster

Wil Dewitt

Reverend Doty

John Robert Thompson

Sheriff Finley