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A beautiful moment in time captured in a truly beautiful film
I was born in Gary, Indiana in 1953, the year before tiny Milan High captured the Indiana State High School Basketball Championship. As most boys who grew up in Indiana, this Cinderella tale was a familiar one to me -- and the true story this film was based on. <
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>Last year, in preparation of attending the NCAA Women's Final Four in Indianapolis with my 11-year-old daughter, I purchased this Collector's Edition DVD to share with her. Although today I live a world away in the heart of Silicon Valley, I will forever remember the part of my childhood that was Hoosier Hysteria. <
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>Of what it was like to play in the annual state tourney, when every school, no matter how big or small, was thrown together into the same fire and born again every March whether their regular-season record was 25-0 or 0-25. Single elimination, do or die, winner take all. <
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>The excitement and hype leading up to the opening games of the first-round Sectional ... of the pride and joy that engulfed the entire communities of the 64 winners who advanced to the Regional ... and then, for a god-like 16 teams, the Semistate ... and ultimately, the originally named Final Four. I can't begin to describe it for you, but this film comes close, really close. <
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>My daughter has played basketball since she was in the third grade, and competes today on a traveling AAU team. She is 10 times the player I ever was at her age, but it is impossible for her to imagine a world without women professional athletes, cell phones or the Internet. And whenever I would tell her about what basketball was -- and still is -- like in Indiana, she would roll her eyes. <
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>Fortunately, I had this film to show her. And a few months later, she experienced the real thing, making the pilgrimage with me down the two-lane backroad blacktops to Milan, where we met the caretaker of the 1954 Milan Museum, Roselyn McKittrick, and later that day, dined with Bobby Plump himself, known as Bobby Chitwood in the film. <
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>I have a photograph of my daughter wearing a red Hickory High -- the fictional school in the film representing Milan -- jersey, holding the ball that Bobby arched high into the Butler Fieldhouse sky that fine and glorious day more than 50 years ago and into history. <
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>This is a rare film in that it somehow captures that special time, that place, that joy. How and why does not matter, only that it does. The tears that falll whenever I watch it are proof enough of that. <
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>This Collector's Edition compliments the original release by including recent interviews with Bobby, the two writer-producers who (as did I) attended Indiana University in the early 1970s, some deleted scenes that shed new light on the storyline, even a glorious B&W archived copy of the 1954 state championship game in its entirety. <
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>A beautiful moment in time captured in a truly beautiful film. <
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>Or, as my daughter later remarked to me, "You know Dad, basketball really is different in Indiana."

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BACK HOME IN INDIANA
HOOSIERS is one of the best sports movies made. Lovingly filmed by director David Anspaugh, the story follows a ragtag team of champion wannabes in 1951 Indiana. Gene Hackman delivers a solid, understated performance as the coach who uses strict disciplinary measures to whip his small team into shape, and try and win over the interfering townsfolk as well. The vastly underappreciated Barbara Hershey shines as the schoolmarm who doesn't have a great love for basketball, but who finds herself in the coach's corner. Dennis Hopper, in one of his best roles, deservedly received an Oscar nomination for supporting actor in his portrait of a former coach who is now the alcoholic father of one of Hackman's players. Hopper is brilliant in capturing the anguish and the insecurity as Hackman's "assistant." A cast of unknown youths are marvelous as the players and it is our empathy and compassion for these boys that makes HOOSIERS such a winning film. A fine score by Jerry Goldsmith adds more kudos for this remarkably entertaining film.

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the basketball movie of all basketball movies.
This is a magical film from the start. Showing the state of Indiana in the first scene of the movie was cool. Gene Hackman was the best fit for the role as the coach. He likes discipline and is honest and knows how to show people how to do things. The movie has some of the most dramatic shots and the games that the Hoosiers played were exciting. This is based on a real story which just makes a person want to buy it or see it even more. There is one guy in this movie that is always drunk and is the father of one of the players on the team. Gene helps him a litttle and makes him assistant coach and then in one of the games he gets thrown out of the game for arguing. He does this so the drunk assistant can try to win the game by himself. What a great idea for a scene in the movie. The last game fininshes it off by one of the Hoosiers shooting the ball to win the game. It goes in at the buzzard with no seconds left and they win the championship in dramatic fashion. That was a huge shot. Being a fan of basketball and playing it I really got inspiration from it. It sure did take a while for it to come out with two discs. oh well it's here now. Buy it and you'll love it. God bless you and America. <
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