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Slap Shot, 1977
English
USA
Profile of Slap Shot
The mood of Slap Shot is cynical, witty, and humorous. The plot centers around a sports team, an athlete and trainer, and going against the odds. It features irreverent humor. Slap Shot is a comedy, sports, and drama movie. In approach, it is realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in a stadium and in a small town. Slap Shot is set in Canada and the USA. It happens in the 20th century. It is based on a book. Slap Shot is known for being critically acclaimed. It is especially suggested for teens and a boys' night. Note that it includes sexual content, profanity, and violent content.
Summary of Slap Shot
A rougher version of George Roy Hill's pet theme of men as overaged adolescents, Slap Shot stars Paul Newman as Reggie Dunlop, the venerable player-coach of the Charlestown Chiefs, a fifth-rate minor league hockey team. When their blue-collar town falls prey to Rust Belt ills of the 1970s, attendance drops, and the greedy owner starts looking for a buyer, anxious to cash out. Dunlop is informed that the players need to crank up the box office to keep their jobs in what will likely be their last season. To the coach's dismay, general manager Joe McGrath (Strother Martin) imports the Hanson brothers, a hockey Three Stooges who like to assault soda machines and play with toys. But once Dunlop turns them loose, they're a Panzer division on ice, and the team starts winning by adopting their bone-crushing style. Although the team is on the upswing, Dunlop's wife, Francine (Jennifer Warren), seems to be through with him, and the isolated wives of the other players aren't much happier with their fate. This sidesplitting, profanity saturated film is one of the funniest ever made about any sport. While writer Nancy Dowd intended to probe darker issues--such as the greed of ownership, the blood lust of fans, and the childishness of the players--Hill submerges them in raucous laughter. Newman is near his peak as the romantic, manipulative, womanizing, hard-drinking coach, and the high-sticking Hanson brothers achieve comic immortality in their only film appearance.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 25 February 1977 |
| Runtime: | 123 min |
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as Reggie 'Reg' Dunlop
as Joe McGrath
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