Slap Shot
1977
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Feb 25, 1977 · Slap Shot: Directed by George Roy Hill. With Paul Newman, Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean, Jennifer Warren. A failing ice hockey team finds success with outrageously violent hockey goonery.
FILM DESCRIPTION: Paul Newman plays Reggie Dunlop, the coach of a pathetic minor-league American hockey team. His career at a standstill and his marriage in tatters, Dunlop has nothing to lose by...
Jan 9, 2012 · Former hockey star Reggie Dunlop goes from living the high life to coaching a minor-league hockey team on the skids. When Dunlop realizes that playing dirty excites the crowds, he turns his team ...
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May 1, 2022 · After trying to win the hockey championship the old-fashioned way and getting nowhere, Reggie Dunlop (Paul Newman) and the Chiefs decide to take matters into their own fists. ...more.
Slap Shot is a 1977 American sports comedy film directed by George Roy Hill, written by Nancy Dowd, and starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean. It depicts a minor league ice hockey team that resorts to violent play to gain popularity in a factory town in decline.
In the small New England town of Charlestown, the local mill is about to lay off 10,000 workers. The town's minor league hockey team, the Charlestown Chiefs, is doing no better. After years of ...
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Reggie "Reg" Dunlop (Paul Newman) is the team's aging player/coach, and the team is dead last in the second-rate Federal League. He meets opposing player Nick Brophy (Jon Gofton) at center ice to start the Hyannisport game, and Nick reveals he is drunk and resents that his coach put him in the game.
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
A hockey star turned coach makes his losing minor-league team into brawlers who give fans exactly what they want: maximum blood, guts and glory. Watch trailers & learn more.
