Gene Hackman reflected on his role in "Hoosiers" and an emotional reunion during a 1987 interview with Harry Martin. Hackman, an Oscar winner, returned to his roots for the film. "Hoosiers" was filmed ...

Sydney Freeland in the long journey to complete her Netflix basketball-focused feature film, produced by LeBron James, had as ...

The filmmakers on the traditions of high school basketball, played on Native American reservations, that informed the sports ...

like Gene Hackman in Hoosiers. “We had to have someone from the community as the coach, to help them,” she added. So Canadian Indigenous actor Jessica Matten was tapped to play the coach of ...

Freeland explains they didn't want a Gene Hackman-type—another Hoosiers reference—coming in as a "white savior." (Powell's book is largely focused on coach Raul Mendoza, described as a "four ...

Freeland explains they didn't want a Gene Hackman-type—another Hoosiers reference—coming in as a "white savior." (Powell's book is largely focused on coach Raul Mendoza, described as a "four-decade ...

Read our Foxcatcher review The Gene Hackman-starring basketball drama ... the baseball-based oeuvre of Kevin Costner). Hoosiers is set in 1950s Indiana, where Norman Dale (Hackman) is enlisted ...

Gene Hackman is one of the best actors of his generation, and he shines as the head coach of a small-town basketball team with big dreams in Hoosiers. The movie is based on a true story from 1951 ...