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Slap Shot (1977)
The movie depicts a pathetic minor-league American hockey team that resorts to use constant fighting and violence during games to gain popularity in a declining factory town.
8 April 1945, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
5 November 1948, Bloomington, Minnesota, USA
5 July 1953, Detroit, Michigan, USA
25 September 1962, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
24 March 1935, USA
22 January 1953, Sainte-Therese, Québec, Canada
6 September 1944, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
22 October 1945, Farnham, Québec, Canada
13 October 1939, Hope, Arkansas, USA
March 14, 2007
Funny, frank, and violent, George Roy Hill's absorbing film about minor league hockey offers a wonderful comic performance from Newman.
March 14, 2007
Half the time Hill invites the audience to get off on the mayhem, the other half of the time he decries it.
December 18, 2015
Newman is literally a diamond in the rough, and it requires a certain forebearance to separate his quality from the surrounding raunch.
April 22, 2013
[VIDEO ESSAY] "Slap Shot" is a sports movie that revels in details of milieu, plot and character. Smokestacks billow white plumes from a perpetually overcast industrial skyline. Everything is old and weather beaten. Every victory is tainted.
March 14, 2007
There are still some nice touches of absurdist satirical wit hanging out along the sidelines, given extra bite by Dede Allen's superbly pacy editing.
August 01, 2008
An unsually abrasive sporting drama from director Hill.
January 02, 2014
Its moral pretenses left me cold.
March 26, 2007
Raw, raunchy, and absolutely hilarious.
March 14, 2007
Slap Shot has a kind of vitality to it that overwhelms most of the questions relating to consistency of character and point of view.
March 14, 2007
This film is full of friendly slap shots, romantic icing, and passionate goals. It's well worth checking out.
May 02, 2013
Often raucously funny and subversive, Slap Shot is one of the few sports movies that is openly contemptuous of its sport, or at least the modern state of it.
August 01, 2008
Slap Shot may have done a lot of fast skating and some solid body checking, but in the last period it makes a final costly slip -- and misses its goal.
