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.

• DirectorDavid Anspaugh
• Release14 November 1986
• Genre
  Drama / Family
• Duration1h 54m
• Budget$9,000,000
• Revenue$28,600,000
• Rate
  

  7.045
  534 reviews
• Productions

  Orion Pictures, De Haven Productions, Hemdale Film Corporation