Hoosiers (1986)

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Pretty good "underdog sporting team comes out on top" flick, based, as usual, on a true story. It's not a particularly interesting one -- the usual thing: coach-with-a-past (Gene Hackman) shakes the team up, initially with mixed results; has positive effects in the community, etc. -- but it's well done, and not as excessively sentimental as most entries in the genre. An added bonus is that it was created as a 50s nostalgia piece, so it hasn't aged anywhere near as poorly as most 80s teen movies.

- Sam - 2007-01-02 13:21:25