Slap Shot

A classic Cult sports movie that is built around a hockey team the Charlestown Chiefs. The chiefs are a bad team that is about to fold where the owner wants nothing to do with them. Paul Newman who is Reggie in this movie is the coach and a player on the team. The mill in the city is closing so they cant survive in Charlestown anymore. Reggie comes up with the Idea to play goon hockey and just try to beat everyone up to put butts in the seats. To keep his players moral up he feeds some false information about the sell of the Chiefs to a retirement community in Florida. The chiefs start winning with this new style. The Chiefs make the championship but after talking to his best player who refuses to fight he wants a good clean old fashion hockey game. Well the team they are playing the Syracuse Bulldogs have other ideas and bring back a bunch of old goons and try to get chiefs to fight first half they will not fight the second half they come out and start fighting the Bulldogs have to forfeit the game after the chiefs best player Ned Braden who refuses to fight comes out to center ice and starts to strip one of the goons from the Bulldogs starts to push and pull on a referee who actually makes the Bulldogs forfeit the game.
Director: George Roy Hill
Writer: Nancy Dowd
Release Date: Feb 25th 1977 (USA)
Genre: Sport Comedy Drama

Awards of the Japanese Academy
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1978	Nominated	Award of the Japanese Academy	Best Foreign Language Film
Hochi Film Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1977	Won	Hochi Film Award	Best Foreign Language Film George Roy Hill
Writers Guild of America, USA
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1978	Nominated	WGA Award (Screen)	Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen Nancy Dowd

Cast

(Cast overview, first billed only)

	Paul Newman	...	Reggie 'Reg' Dunlop
	Strother Martin	...	Joe McGrath
	Michael Ontkean	...	Ned Braden
	Jennifer Warren	...	Francine Dunlop
	Lindsay Crouse	...	Lily Braden
	Jerry Houser	...	Dave 'Killer' Carlson
	Andrew Duncan	...	Jim Carr
	Jeff Carlson	...	Jeff Hanson
	Steve Carlson	...	Steve Hanson
	David Hanson	...	Jack Hanson
	Yvon Barrette	...	Denis Lemieux
	Allan F. Nicholls	...	Johnny Upton (as Allan Nicholls)
	Brad Sullivan	...	Morris 'Mo' Wanchuk
	Stephen Mendillo	...	Jim Ahern