Hoosiers
There's a difference between a film audiences like and one that wins brackets. Hoosiers does both — 55% across 113 head-to-head matchups. The underdog sports template — every film in the genre since has been borrowing from it, and none have matched its sincerity. In a bracket, that sincerity functions as armor: it's very hard to vote against something this earnest without feeling like you've made the wrong choice.
Synopsis
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.
The round-by-round numbers don't move much: 55%, 50%, 65%. Hoosiers's strength isn't in any particular round — it's in the absence of a round where it falls off.
He Got Game at 50% is as close to a dead heat as the platform produces. Every vote matters in this one. The 88% rate against Coach Carter is among the most lopsided in Hoosiers's history.
Basketball Movie Madness!: Hoosiers clears Hoop Dreams in the opening round and dispatches Coach Carter at 88% in the final. A convincing start-to-finish run.
#2 of 8 in Basketball Movie Madness!.
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