They needed a second chance to finish first.
7.07
114 min
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.
Name | Character | Team | |
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Gene Hackman | Coach Norman Dale | Unowned | |
Barbara Hershey | Myra Fleener | Unowned | |
Dennis Hopper | Shooter | Unowned | |
Sheb Wooley | Cletus | Unowned | |
Fern Persons | Opal Fleener | Unowned | |
Chelcie Ross | George | Unowned | |
Robert Swan | Rollin | Unowned | |
Michael O'Guinne | Rooster | Unowned | |
Wil Dewitt | Reverend Doty | Unowned | |
John Robert Thompson | Sheriff Finley | Unowned | |
Michael Sassone | Preacher Purl | Unowned | |
Gloria Dorson | Millie | Unowned | |
Mike Dalzell | Mayor Carl | Unowned | |
Skip Welker | Junior | Unowned | |
Eric Gilliom | J. June | Unowned | |
Maris Valainis | Jimmy Chitwood | Unowned | |
David Neidorf | Everett | Unowned |