Some consider this movie to be the best sports movie ever. Move over "Brian's Song;" "The Longest Yard;" and Ronald Reagan as the "Gipper."
According to the clip "Slapshot" was made for $6 million in 1977 and barely broke even. I saw it back then and laughed me arse off.
It does have salty language. But the Hanson Brothers and Strother Martin as the stingy G.M. along with Paul Newman make for a special treat.
The movie focuses on a fictitious "Federal League" team called the Charlestown Chiefs. The team, a perennial loser and in financial trouble due to mill closings in the town, is due to be folded at season's end.
Through the course of regular business, the team picks up the Hanson Brothers, violent goons with child-like mentalities. Reggie Dunlop, the veteran player-coach (played by Newman), perceiving them to be eccentric and unreliable, initially chooses not to play them. Finally, in a moment of desperation and passiveness, he brings the trio of thugs into the game to see what they can do. Their big open-ice hits and overly aggressive - bordering on homicidal - style of play is greatly praised by the fans in desperate need of something for which to cheer.
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