Overview: Hoosiers

cast/trailer/info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091217/
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoosiers

  This movie was given a PG rating (I think it was given this for the drunk man and his manner/state of being and  language).  I rated the film a 4/5 for being a sport film, having a happy ending and it being based off a real team (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Milan_High_School_basketball_team).

   This movies starts off with the hiring of a new basketball coach (Gene Hackman as Coach Norman Dale) to return a favor to a friend.  While visiting his new school he finds out that basketball is regarded as the supreme sport around the place in the small town.  This put massive pressure on the coach to turn the team around and make it excell.  While attempting to change the team to a winning program, he is meet with much criticism about his style of play early in the season.  This continues even after he starts to win a lot of games.
   But what complicates things even more is that he has fallen for a local women and a local drunk that causes havoc at almost every game.  But instead of making these challenges he uses these people to help make his team even better.  The local women is the guardian of a local basketball prodigy who decides that he doesn't want to play for anyone (the coach whom Coach Dale is taking over for was his mentor ans very close to him), whom allows the boy to play later on in the season (the boy decides to play for the team, during a town meeting to vote on firing coach Dale due to the coach's radical change of style from fast-paced shooting off to a defensive team that takes smart shoots (with only 8 players), and she allows it).  The drunk is the father of one of the basketball players on his team but coach Dale makes him an assistant coach to try and help him on the straight and narrow path, who ends up being a valuable asset to the team and gains the respect of his own son.
   With the prodigy boy on their team, the team goes through the rest of the season in sync and makes it to the state championship game.  While preparing for the game, the coach takes the team out to the court and shows them the largest stadiums these boys have ever seen by a long shot.  While the coach is showing them this, he takes a tape measure and measures the features of the court to show them that the court is exactly the same dimensions as the one back hone.  This helps calm the team down and prevails them to a close victory over a highly-favored and very large school.
   This victory not only brings a championship to the coach and his team, but also unties a town that was very much in need of something to be proud of.  Also the coach gets the girl, the drunk and his son plan on spending more time together and the coach coaches a high school that was 8x smaller than any high school in the history to ever to win the state championship.  The end shows the banner of the real 1964 team (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Milan_High_School_basketball_team) that accomplished this same feat in just as dramatic fashion.