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Slap Shot

1977

George Roy Hill

Paul Newman, Michael Ontkean, Lindsay Crouse, Jennifer Warren ...

6.5

5,563

Comedy A rougher version of George Roy Hill's pet theme of men as overaged adolescents, SLAP SHOT stars Paul Newman as Reggie Dunlop, the venerable player-coach of the Charlestown Chiefs, a fifth-rate minor league hockey team. When their blue-collar town falls prey to Rust Belt ills of the 1970s, attendance drops, and the greedy owner starts looking for a buyer, anxious to cash out. Dunlop is informed that the players need to crank up the box ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Rolling Stone	"Even hailing from a decade with no shortage of competition Slap Shot remains the greatest sports flick of the 1970s"	POS
United States	Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"Hill lacks the conviction or the temperament for all this brutal buffoonishness, and he can't hold the picture together; what does is the warmth supplied by Paul Newman."	NEU

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