Lloyd Braun Hoosiers is a timeless film about small town rural basketball and its impact on the people in those towns. I have never seen a movie that captures the essence of what basketball means to people in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, etc.. It captures that simplistic essence with heartfelt characters and life lessons. Its a beautiful film with incredible acting, a great score, and outstanding directing. The movie is about 2nd chances, which every person deserves.Oscar worthy acting by both Gene Hackman and Dennis Hopper.

cadenrudolph I got to experience this movie in Bu-Ray High Definition with my Dad I actually loved this movie Gene Hackman did a great job playing the coach and then what was cool a couple of months after I had seen the movie we had a wedding to go to because that is where some of our cousins live and some on of them was getting married so on the way there I saw the sign for the exit to take to go see the Hoosiers Basketball Museum and High School and you could also see where they filmed the movie I wanted to go but we were on a very tight schedule for the wedding me and my dad were very bummed anyway you should actually definitely really see this movie film.

Casey Brown As a young kid I grew up around sports everywhere I went so this was naturally my favorite movie. It still is today. It's a feel good story with a somewhat slow introduction and it can be slow at times but you must be patient with this movie. Once it gets into the thick of things (the games) it really tenses up. Gene Hackman is just phenomenal in this film. Coach Norman Dale does everything he can to develop his team HIS way. He takes a semi-decent to poor team in high school and turns them into winners. The town people aren't exactly fond of his ways so he fights many battles. It seems as though the only way to prove himself is to win the championship, which is a long shot for what this team has accomplished recently.

Maniac-9 If you were going to make the absolute best possible movie a sports movie can be, this would be it. You have a great lead in Gene Hackman playing a high school basketball coach coming to a small town to turn around a bunch of sad sack losers into a championship team. Overcoming teams from much bigger schools with much bigger players on their rosters. The locations and the atmosphere of the movie was spot on, they had a very bar minimum gymnasium to play in. The emphasis they put on basketball in small town Indiana was perfect since it really is the most important thing to the towns people since a small town like that doesn't have any pro sports teams of their own so they have to latch onto their high school teams.