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.







14th November 1986
39 years ago
1 hour 54 minutes
Finishes at 11:08am
$9,000,000 ($26,782,200 today)
Revenue $28,600,000


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