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.
Hoosiers has generally received very positive reviews.
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Hoosiers was released in 1986 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 532 reviews, giving Hoosiers (1986) an average rating of 78%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 85%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 81%.
With a score of 78%, Hoosiers is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1986, which stands at 57%.
Other movies from 1986 with similar scores include films like Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Down by Law.
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