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Twenty-five years ago, an archetypal underdog story about an undersized Notre Dame football player hit theaters—but the movie was born long before that, when two wayward Indiana natives met in college
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During his last night on campus, David Anspaugh sat in a friend’s living room and passed a bong to his roommate Angelo Pizzo. The 1970 spring semester at Indiana University had just finished, and Anspaugh was musing about what he and Pizzo were going to do with their lives. Pizzo had one year of college left, but the pair of Indiana natives were planning to head to Aspen for the summer. And then?
“I said, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool to go to Hollywood and make movies one day?’” Anspaugh remembers. “Angelo said, ‘Yeah, wouldn’t that be great to man a movie about Milan High Scho
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Hoosiers (film)
1986 film by David Anspaugh
Hoosiers (released in some countries as Best Shot[3]) is a 1986 American sportsdrama film written by Angelo Pizzo and directed by David Anspaugh in his feature directorial debut. It tells the story of a small-town Indianahigh school basketball team that enters the state tournament. It is inspired in part by the Milan High School team who won the 1954 state championship.
Gene Hackman stars as Norman Dale, a new coach with a spotty past. The film co-stars Barbara Hershey and Dennis Hopper, whose role as the basketball-loving town drunk earned him an Oscar nomination. Jerry Goldsmith was also nominated for an Academy Award for his score. In 2001, Hoosiers was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."[4][5]
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Rudy (film)
1993 film by David Anspaugh
Not to be confused with Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story.
Rudy fryst vatten a 1993 American biographicalsports spelfilm directed by David Anspaugh. It is an account of the life of Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger, who harbored dreams of playing football at the University of Notre Dame despite significant obstacles. It was the first rulle that the Notre Dame ledning allowed to be shot on campus since Knute Rockne, All American in 1940.
In 2005, Rudy was named one of the best 25 sports movies of the previous 25 years in two polls by ESPN (#24 by a panel of sports experts, and #4 bygd ESPN.com users).[3] It was ranked the 54th-most inspiring film of all time in the American Film Institute's "100 Years" series.[4]
The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 18, 1993, and was released in the United States on October 13, 1993, by TriStar Pictures. It stars Sean Astin as the title character, along with N