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  1. Jan 15, 2022 · It’s been accepted wisdom for much of my adult life that “Slap Shot” is “the greatest sports movie of all time.” A rude, bloody and irreverent 1970s story of minor league hockey, it was the last time director George Roy Hill teamed up with his on-screen alter ego, Paul Newman.

  2. Feb 24, 2017 · Hockey. Happy 40th anniversary, 'Slap Shot'! Why the greatest hockey movie of all time captures the 1970s better than any other sports movie.

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  3. Feb 19, 2024 · The wacky true story of the hockey team that inspired ‘Slap Shot’ - The Athletic. Jayson Jenks. Feb 19, 2024. Once upon a time, there was a screenplay for a hockey movie that was so absurd, so...

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  5. McGrath. Jennifer Warren. Francine. Watchlist. 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...

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    • Goon. "Goon" isn't the best sports movie of all time, but it might be the best character study in sports movie clothing. For all its colorful profanity and comedic set-pieces, Michael Dowse, Jay Baruchel, and Evan Goldberg's tale of a Massachusetts bouncer turned hockey enforcer (Sean Williams Scott) is closer to "Moneyball" than "The Mighty Ducks" or "Miracle."
    • Miracle. "Miracle" is a great movie about classic hockey tropes: perseverance, hunger, and the line between madness and magic, but it also shines a spotlight on less-explored elements.
    • Slap Shot. "Slap Shot" is the de-facto hockey movie. It stars all-time Hollywood legend, Paul Newman. It made instant cult icons of the Hanson Brothers (David Hanson, Steve Carlson, and Jeff Carlson, who would return for the lesser "Slap Shot" sequels) when it was released in 1977.
    • The Rocket. "The Rocket" turns an admiration for its subject into art. The film is the story of Canadian hockey legend Maurice Richard, and Richard himself reviewed the film's dialogue and hockey sequences for authenticity before he passed.
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  7. 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.

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