Movie · 1986
Hoosiers
“They needed a second chance to finish first.”
Released 14 November 1986 114 min Drama / Family More from 1986 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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.
FR·01
How old were they?
Fern Persons
as Opal Fleener
Sheb Wooley
as Cletus Summers
Gene Hackman
as Norman Dale
Dennis Hopper
as Wilbur "Shooter" Flatch
Chelcie Ross
as George Walker
Robert Swan
as Rollin Butcher
Barbara Hershey
as Myra Fleener
Maris Valainis
as Jimmy Chitwood
David Neidorf
as Everett Flatch (#21)
Brad Long
as Buddy Walker (#14)
Steve Hollar
as Rade Butcher (#25)
Brad Boyle
as Whit Butcher (#43)
Kent Poole
as Merle Webb (#12)
Wade Schenck
as Ollie McLellan (#13)
Scott Summers
as Strap Purl (#53)
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The numbers
53years between the oldest and youngest billed
76Fern Persons — oldest on the call sheet
23David Neidorf — youngest billed
46average age of the credited cast