The life of Norman Dale, a miserable basketball coach whose life is boring and useless, has been changed completely, when he receives an offer of training a high school basketball team, the thing that inspires his entirely life, but he faces many challenges and hardships, after choosing a drug addict as his assistant, but he goes above all expectation and make the final score.
An enjoyable, if conventional and manipulative small-town sports melodrama, boasting strong turns from Gene Hackman and Dennis Hopper, who received his only acting nomination for his part.
