Kent poole biography

Basketball is Indiana.

Indiana is basketball.

Need a visual answer to those two truisms? Look no further than one of the best sports films ever made, 1986's Hoosiers (the word simply means "someone from Indiana").

Kent poole biography

A David vs. Goliath tale of second chances, redemption, and dreaming and achieving the impossible not only describes the plot, but the history of the film's production as well. Novice director David Anspaugh and writer/producer Angelo Pizzo had a small budget and not much support, but took the true story of tiny town Milan's dance with destiny in the state's 1954 high school championship and turned it into their own fictionalized cinematic triumph.

Gene Hackman, Barbra Hershey and Dennis Hopper were the marquee names on the poster, but it was the little guys who played the Hickory High Huskers and their prideful, cheering townsfolk, all mostly first-time actors from Indiana, that got the teamwork to make the