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Slap Shot
In a dilapidated industrial city, a story of a strange kind is related to hockey. The story begins with an attempt by a pathetic American hockey team of the second class to get the biggest popularity in the region. The team uses constant fighting and violence during matches to gain popularity in that small town. It seems that violence and fighting is the best way to get a strong team popularity.
28 September 1944, New York City, New York, USA
26 August 1955, Virginia, Minnesota, USA
1945, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA
6 September 1944, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
24 January 1946, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1945 in Media, Pennsylvania, USA
12 May 1948, New York City, New York, USA
1 July 1957, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
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
An unsually abrasive sporting drama from director Hill.
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.
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
Half the time Hill invites the audience to get off on the mayhem, the other half of the time he decries 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.
January 02, 2014
Its moral pretenses left me cold.
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.
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.
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 26, 2007
Raw, raunchy, and absolutely hilarious.
