
Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school basketball team in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher persuades star player Jimmy Chitwood to quit and focus on his long-neglected studies, Dale struggles to develop a winning team in the face of community criticism for his temper and his unconventional choice of assistant coach: Shooter, a notorious alcoholic.

Gene Hackman
Norman Dale

Barbara Hershey
Myra Fleener

Dennis Hopper
Wilbur "Shooter" Flatch

Sheb Wooley
Cletus Summers

Maris Valainis
Jimmy Chitwood

David Neidorf
Everett Flatch (#21)

Brad Long
Buddy Walker (#14)

Steve Hollar
Rade Butcher (#25)
Brad Boyle
Whit Butcher (#43)
Kent Poole
Merle Webb (#12)

Wade Schenck
Ollie McLellan (#13)
Scott Summers
Strap Purl (#53)

My Mother's Future Husband
My Mother's Future Husband

Champion
Champion
The Montreal Protocol
The Montreal Protocol

The Last Picture Show
The Last Picture Show

The Concert
The Concert

One Eye Red
One Eye Red

Green Flash
Green Flash

Rosewood
Rosewood

We Are Monster
We Are Monster

The Aggressives
The Aggressives

The Children Nobody Wanted
The Children Nobody Wanted

The Fragile Colossus
The Fragile Colossus