Slap Shot (Blu-ray) R
Slap Shot out slaps... out swears... out laughs...
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 3 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: October 15, 2013
- Originally Released: 1977
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Paul Newman | |
Performer: | Strother Martin, Jennifer Warren, Michael Ontkean, Lindsay Crouse, Jerry Houser, Andrew Duncan, Steve Carlson & Allan Nicholls | |
Directed by | George Roy Hill | |
Edited by | Dede Allen | |
Screenwriting by | Nancy Dowd | |
Composition by | Elmer Bernstein | |
Produced by | Robert J. Wunsch & Stephen Friedman | |
Director of Photography: | Victor J. Kemper |
Entertainment Reviews:
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.
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TIME Magazine
Newman is literally a diamond in the rough, and it requires a certain forebearance to separate his quality from the surrounding raunch.
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Washington Post
Nancy Dowd's (first) script is so clear and chockfull of realities in the sports world that it makes me want to stand up and cheer:
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Los Angeles Free Press
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Slap Shot has a kind of vitality to it that overwhelms most of the questions relating to consistency of character and point of view.
New York Times
Rating: C+ --
Its moral pretenses left me cold.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 3/4 --
Easily the greatest hockey film ever made.
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Combustible Celluloid
One of the film's unexpected bonanzas is a clutch of beautifully realized female roles.
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Product Description:
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 saturated film is one of the funniest ever made about any sport. While writer Nancy Dowd intended to probe darker issues--such as the greed of ownership, the blood lust of fans, and the childishness of the players--Hill submerges them in raucous laughter. Newman is near his peak as the romantic, manipulative, womanizing, hard-drinking coach, and the high-sticking Hanson brothers achieve comic immortality in their only film appearance.