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.
24 March 1935, USA
26 August 1955, Virginia, Minnesota, USA
May 26, 1945 in USA
26 March 1919, Kokomo, Indiana, USA
5 November 1948, Bloomington, Minnesota, USA
14 July 1952, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 September 1944, New York City, New York, USA
12 April 1954, Cumberland, Wisconsin, USA
22 February 1928, Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA
9 January 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
30 December 1932, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
22 March 1935, Ogdensburg, New York, USA
1 July 1957, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
1945, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA
20 July 1943, Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA
30 October 1942, New York City, New York, USA
6 September 1944, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
13 October 1939, Hope, Arkansas, USA
26 May 1950, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
26 January 1925, Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
24 January 1946, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
20 July 1953, Virginia, Minnesota, USA
August 01, 2008
An unsually abrasive sporting drama from director Hill.
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.
January 02, 2014
Its moral pretenses left me cold.
March 26, 2007
Raw, raunchy, and absolutely hilarious.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
March 14, 2007
This film is full of friendly slap shots, romantic icing, and passionate goals. It's well worth checking out.
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.
