Slap Shot

1977

Action / Comedy / Drama / Sport

18
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 88% · 38 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 88% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 44464 44.5K

small town sports pennsylvania, usa ice hockey team owner

Plot summary

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.

Director

George Roy Hill Photo
George Roy Hill

Top cast

Lucy Lee Flippin Photo
Lucy Lee Flippin as Game Show Contestant
Paul Dooley Photo
Paul Dooley as Hyannisport Announcer
Paul Newman Photo
Paul Newman as Reggie 'Reg' Dunlop
Matthew Cowles Photo
Matthew Cowles as Charlie Kischel
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868.03 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
2 hr 3 min
Seeds 8
1.84 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 3 min
Seeds 37

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by gbill-74877 7 / 10

Love those Hanson brothers

I love how they got Paul Newman for this part, and how great he looks out on the ice. The film parodies the violence in hockey, and it had some potentially interesting bits in the class aspects of a blue collar town facing a plant closing, as well as a mostly faceless owner who disdains the sport and simply looks forward to a tax write-off, but unfortunately these don't come to much. Worse is the cringe-inducing homophobia. The best part of the film are the hilarious Hanson brothers, and the film could have used a lot more of them.
Reviewed by hitchcockthelegend 8 / 10

Funny, cynical and irreverent.

Paul Newman is the coach of third rate failing minor league hockey team, The Charlestown Chiefs. The town is hit hard by unemployment and this appears to be the Chiefs' last season, however, if the coach can whip up the team up into a winning frenzy, then the unknown owner might just find a buyer and save all their carers? The management bring in three odd looking brothers who, once unleashed, take the whole team on a blood thirsty winning streak right to the championship final. The crowds flock in thirsting for more blood, but then the problems start to arise.Slap Shot is a tremendously funny film, it's also incredibly violent and often vulgar in dialogue, but be sure to know that both things go hand in hand here (or should it be glove in glove?) to create one of the smartest sports pictures in the modern age. The hockey sequences are excellent (especially to a non fan like me), and the script bristles with course and biting humour. Slap Shot on its initial release was frowned upon by many critics, it was considered too profane and overly harsh with the win at all costs theme driving it forward. However, it's now rightly embraced as the smart and intelligent piece that director George Roy Hill wanted it to be seen as. A new generation of movie fans have started to seek it out and its reputation and fan base grows ever more larger by the year.Newman was a bona fide star, his hair silver grey but his good looks still firmly intact, his performance has a grace about it that oddly sits nicely amongst this cynical stab at professional hockey; even if his characters' clothes are, in truth, icky. It would be a big disservice if I didn't mention the impact of the Hanson Brothers, surely one of the finest combinations to have ever graced a sports movie? They are at once unassumingly likable, the next gleefully violent, they are the glue that binds the whole picture together. Film is filled out with sparkling support work from the likes of Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean, Jennifer Warren, Lindsay Crouse and Jerry Houser.Not long after originally writing this review, the legend that was Paul Newman sadly passed away, he left behind a movie legacy that few can touch, and trust me, this is one of them. A sports movie that never gets old and continues to pay off on repeat viewings. 8.5/10
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