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Title: good basketball action, warmth, and gnostalgia
Review: This is an inspiring and heart-warming story about a coach who is given another, but at the same time, last chance to redeem himself and his career; Gene Hackman is the right man for the part of the coach. The boys, in a sense, need a chance to enter the state basketball finals in the spring of 1952. The town people of the small Indiana town do not respect him at first. The female teacher, (played well by Barbara Hershey) the first he meets, is cold toward him as well. And yet, he is able to push his boys to the state tournament. Sheb Wooley is a "good ole boy" principal who is very encouraging toward his long-time friend. Having grown up in the 50's, (I entered the first grade in the fall of 1952) while living in a small central Kentucky town, the gnostalgia did affect me positively. This movie is one I've seen many times, and every time I have I've almost choked up at such a wonderful movie.
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