To me, this movie is perfection.

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Boring

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

David Anspaugh's Hooisers is a classic, despite the predictability of the film. It illustrates the concept of the underdog dream by showing not only what is seen in successful teams from the outside, but what also happens behind the scenes. Using a high school basketball team to focus this discussion of the underdog story, the film expresses how difficult the obstacles are to achieve such a feat, as some people could possibly see it just as a lucky miracle. At the end of the day, the film hopes to show what must happen to accomplish such a hard goal, and also to show what the key to success is in order to achieve that certain goal.The movie successfully demonstrates teamwork as the moral. Teamwork was simply the result from the support that they gave to each other which resulted in their championship season. This team could not win for the life of them before that crucial emergency meeting, in which the support from the community finally came out for the head coach. Look where that got them! They became champions. This film is a perfect guide on how to accomplish that mindset of teamwork by connecting all the tiny details into our daily lives. Just as in this great movie, you can't win alone. Even the little things require the idea of teamwork if we want to be truly effective, which is why this movie is a must- see.

I got to experience this movie in Bu-Ray High Definition with my Dad I actually loved this movie Gene Hackman did a great job playing the coach and then what was cool a couple of months after I had seen the movie we had a wedding to go to because that is where some of our cousins live and some on of them was getting married so on the way there I saw the sign for the exit to take to go see the Hoosiers Basketball Museum and High School and you could also see where they filmed the movie I wanted to go but we were on a very tight schedule for the wedding me and my dad were very bummed anyway you should actually definitely really see this movie film.

I grew up near Northeastern Indiana on the Ohio side. Those fields are my fields, those skies are like the midwestern skies of my childhood. "Hoosiers" is not only a great sports movie, it reflects the ambiance of the early 50's in midwestern farm country in a way few artistic efforts do. There is a quietness, a beauty of those times and those places that you don't see any more. Progress is great, but it is nice to remember where you came from.Gene Hackman does an outstanding job playing Norman Dale, coach of the Hickory Hoosiers. They are farm boys from a small Indiana town who play basketball as easily as some people ride a bycycle. Dale molds them into an unbeatable team who eventually win the state championship. He has a checkered past. This chance to coach a winning team is a redemption for him as well as a victory for the whole town."Hoosiers" is a joy to watch and experience. Time hasn't dimmed its excellence.

This film has great heart. Gene Hackman turns in a great performance, as does Dennis Hopper. Having grown up in Indiana, and having been part of more than one caravan to watch a high school basketball game, I know of no film that captures the heart and spirit of the Midwest -- let alone Hoosier basketball -- like Hoosiers. One sign of a great film is the ability to drop in at any time and be absorbed in the film. This is such a film. And yes, it's about a lot more than basketball. It's about new beginnings and overcoming hardship and adversity and second chances -- and in that respect it is a quintessentially American film. It's worth revisiting every NCAA season.