Freiwurf

Originaltitel: Hoosiers

1986
6
1 Std. 54 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,4/10

53.822

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

209

Gene Hackman and Dennis Hopper in Freiwurf (1986)

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3 Videos

96 Fotos

Basketball Drama Sport

Ein Trainer mit einer wechselvollen Vergangenheit und ein lokaler Betrunkener trainieren ein Basketballteam aus der Kleinstadt, um ein Spitzenkandidat für die Meisterschaft zu werden.Ein Trainer mit einer wechselvollen Vergangenheit und ein lokaler Betrunkener trainieren ein Basketballteam aus der Kleinstadt, um ein Spitzenkandidat für die Meisterschaft zu werden.Ein Trainer mit einer wechselvollen Vergangenheit und ein lokaler Betrunkener trainieren ein Basketballteam aus der Kleinstadt, um ein Spitzenkandidat für die Meisterschaft zu werden.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,4/10

53.822

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

209

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Für 2 Oscars nominiert
- 3 Gewinne & 5 Nominierungen insgesamt

Wissenswertes
The scene with Jimmy and Coach Dale talking while Jimmy shot baskets was filmed in one take. Maris Valainis said that he "wasn't even listening to him. I was just concentrating on making them, and I made one, and they kept going in."

Patzer
The scoreboard at the final game is more electronic than the mechanical clocks and numerical flip-cards used in the 1950s.

Zitate
Coach Norman Dale: I would hope you would support who we are. Not, who we are not. These six individuals have made a choice to work, a choice to sacrifice, to put themselves on the line 23 nights for the next 4 months, to represent you, this high school. That kind of commitment and effort deserves and demands your respect. This is your team.

Alternative Versionen
The TV version of the film has been disowned by director David Anspaugh, and its director's credit goes to "Jack Nemo".

Verbindungen
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Something Wild/The Mission/Hoosiers/Sky Bandits (1986)

Soundtracks
Big Band Highlight No. 2
Composed by Ole Georg (as Neil Amsterdam)
Courtesy of Capitol Productions Music

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The real story and the movie

I rate it 7 basketballs out of ten. See this movie's discussion board to reply my comments.

The movie is loosely based on the 1954 season of the tiny town of the Milan Indians in Indiana. I dug up some facts about this team. It was coached by Marvin Wood and his coaching was met with great controversy in the town as in the movie. The movie plays with the actual events to increase drama but the real story seems just as sensational. It is called the greatest story in Indiana sports history. The team beat NBA great Oscar Roberston's high school team in the semifinals. Coach Wood actually did measure the height of the basketball goal in the fieldhouse to keep the team from being intimidated. Towards the end of the real final game, the Milan team was exhausted. To help out, Milan's best shooter, Bobby Plump, held the ball for an excruciating 4 minutes, an eternity in basketball, before taking a final shot. He then missed the shot! In the final seconds the Indians were able to get the ball back from Muncie and Plump hit the last second winning shot. Where the movie strayed is that the real `Hickory' team had a roster of 12 players, and the real coach was in his second year of coaching the team and was long-time married. I dunno if there was a real life alcoholic character like Shooter. Coach Wood died of cancer Oct. 13, 1999 at the age of 71. At the funeral the 1954 basketball team members who attended all wore carnations, dyed in the school's yellow-gold team color. Wood had often said, "God was coaching that team, not me."