Slap Shot

Release Date: 1998-09-01, Rating R (Restricted),

An old-time hockey player tells his minor-league team to play dirty, and fans love it. Directed by George Roy Hill.

Release Date: 2002-03-26, Rating R (Restricted),

Release Date: 2002-03-26, Rating R (Restricted),

DVDs. Slap Shot

Release Date: 2002-03-26, Rating R (Restricted),

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 office to keep their jobs in what will likely be their last season. To the coach's dismay general manager Joe McGrath Strother Martin imports the Hanson brothers a hockey Three Stooges who like to assault soda machines and play with toys. But once Dunlop turns them loose they're a Panzer division on ice and the team starts winning by adopting their bone-crushing style. Although the team is on the upswing Dunlop's wife Francine Jennifer Warren seems to be through with him and the isolated wives of the other players aren't much happier with their fate. This sidesplitting profanity satu

Parody (spoof) DVD - Paul Newman plays Reggie Dunlop, the coach of a pathetic minor-league American hockey team. His career at a standstill and his marriage in tatters, Dunlop has nothing to lose by taking on a new group of players who are one evolutionary step above Neanderthals. Only when the team begins winning does he decide to get behind these players, and to encourage the rest of the team to play as down-and-dirty as the newcomers. Straight-arrow team member Ned Braden (Michael Ontkean) resents this influx of gonzo talent, preferring to play clean. As the film's multitude of subplots play themselves out, Dunlop does his best to keep the outraged Braden on the team. Slap Shot is the sort of film for which the "R" rating was invented: Its nonstop barrage of profanity and its raunchy action sequences are of such intensity that the film will probably never be shown intact on commercial television. - Slap Shot (DVD)

Slap Shot (25th Anniversary Special Edition) (widescreen) (dual-layered Dvd) - Paul Dooley,larry Block, christopher Murney,swoosie Kurtz,jerry Houser,andrew Duncan,jeff Carlson,steve Carlson,david Hanson,yvon Barrette,allan Nicholls,brad Sullivan,stephen Mendillo,yvan Ponton,matthew Cowles,kathryn Walker,melinda Dillon,m. Emmet Walsh,paul D'amato,ned Dowd,paul Newman,strother Martin,michael Ontkean,jennifer Warren,lindsay Crouse,george Roy Hill - Coaches And Players,down On Their Luck,fighting The System,hockey Players,men's Friendship, success Is The Best Revenge,underdogs