Slap Shot is a 1977 film starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean and is directed by George Roy Hill. It depicts a minor league hockey team who discover that violent play makes them heroes to their declining factory town.
The movie focuses on a fictional team called the Charlestown Chiefs, who are members of the fictional Federal League. The team, a perennial loser and in financial trouble due to mill closings in the town, is due to be folded at ...
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Slap Shot is a 1977 film starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean and is directed by George Roy Hill. It depicts a minor league hockey team who discover that violent play makes them heroes to their declining factory town.
The movie focuses on a fictional team called the Charlestown Chiefs, who are members of the fictional Federal League. The team, a perennial loser and in financial trouble due to mill closings in the town, is due to be folded at season's end. Reggie Dunlop, the veteran player-coach (played by Newman), has no idea who the owner of the team is.
Through the course of regular business, the team picks up the Hanson Brothers, violent goons with child-like mentalities. Coach Dunlop, perceiving them to be eccentric and unreliable, initially chooses not to play them. Finally, in a moment of desperation and passiveness, he brings the trio of thugs into the game to see what they can do. Their big open-ice hits and overly aggressive - bordering on homicidal - style of play is...
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