▶ Watch the trailer
Film · 1977 · Sports comedy
Slap Shot
Directed by George Roy Hill
1977
★ 4.1 editorial score
Real minor-league players filled most of the roster and three of them became the Hanson Brothers: Paul Newman coaches a dying team that discovers the crowd will pay for violence.
“Sports is not a series of storylines...or some sort of allegory for how we should all live our lives, a set of role models representing the best our world has to offer. It's about a bunch of dumb guys traveling from town to town and punching each other for our amusement and diversion...There are many great sports movies but Slap Shot is the only one that has ever understood that essential fact: This is an ugly, stupid business.”
Time
1977Depicts 1970s
Where to watch
