Slap Shot Page #3

Synopsis: Located in the US Rust Belt, Charlestown is home of the hapless Chiefs, a losing Federal League hockey team whose games are poorly attended. To make money, the team's unknown owner makes its manager, Joe McGrath, do cheesy publicity much to the players' chagrin. Rumors abound among the players that if the local mill closes, the team will fold. Just before the official announcement is made, the team's aging player/coach, Reggie Dunlop, does get wind that the mill is indeed closing and that this season will be the team's last. Beyond efforts to reconcile with his wife Francine, who loves Reggie but doesn't love his career, Reggie begins to focus on how to renew interest in the team for a possible sale as he knows if the team folds, his hockey career is over. Without telling anyone of his plan, he begins a rumor that the owner is negotiating a sale with a city in Florida. He also decides that "goon" hockey - most especially using the untapped talents of the recently acquired childlike but
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Director(s): George Roy Hill
Production: MCA Universal Home Video
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
61
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
R
Year:
1977
123 min
1,347 Views


F*** it.

Then you'll remember it was Joe McGrath

who trained you for the front office.

I'm sorry, Jerry.

Like I say, I'd like to cancel the order.

In fact, I've got

some equipment I'd like to sell.

The skate sharpener,

the massage table, the Jacuzzi, our bus...

Transways Express Flyernumber 83,

forPittsburgh, Cleveland...

-..ready forboarding at gate two.

Please have your tickets available.

Hey! Hey!

- You the Hansons?

- F***in' machine took my quarter.

Who are you?

Reggie Dunlop, the coach.

- Grab your gear and let's get goin'.

- OK. Come on, Steve, let's go.

- It took my quarter.

- Think they show Speed Racer here?

Hey, guys! Wait up.

Look what I got!

- You guys triplets?

- No, I'm in the middle.

Steve's 20 and Jeffs 18.

- Where are you from?

- Iron League.

- The lron League, huh? A lot of fights?

- Nah.

Hey, I want a soda!

We paid for a week,

then you gotta find a room of your own.

OK, Coach. Gimme a grape or an orange,

and none of that stinkin' root beer!

- We go on the road tomorrow mor...

We're on the road in the morning.

- Bus leaves the War Memorial at 8am.

- I gave you a quarter at the bus station.

Give me another dime.

I'm savin' a dime to call Mom.

Jesus Christ.

You cheap son of a b*tch.

Are you crazy? Those guys are retards!

I got a good deal on those boys. The

scout said they showed a lot of promise.

They brought their f***in' toys with 'em!

I'd rather have 'em play with

their toys than with themselves.

They're too dumb

to play with themselves.

Every piece of garbage on the market,

you gotta buy it!

Reg. Reg, that reminds me.

I was coachin' in Omaha in 1948

and Eddie Shore sends me this guy

that's a terrible masturbator.

Couldn't control himself.

He would get deliberate penalties

so he could get into

the penalty box all by himself,

and damned if he wouldn't, you know...

- Oh, Joe. Jesus.

- What was his name?

"To see the three Chiefs

make a scoring rush,

the bright colours of their jerseys...

flashing against the milky ice,

was to see a work of art in motion."

That's good writin', Dickie.

- I tried to capture the spirit of it.

- You did.

- Want a beer to go along with that?

- It's ridiculous for us to be here.

We stick out like a couple of sore thumbs.

- I'm doin' what I like right here.

- It's making you crazy too.

- You're turning into a zombie.

- I don't wanna have a stinkin' fight again.

"Rookie goalie Denis Lemieux, continuing

his brilliant first season with the Chiefs..."

Il parle de la game d'hier, ecoute ca.

OK. "Denis Lemieux

continue sa saison..."

My father'd give you a job. Yours would.

I'm all for that.

Always good to have choices.

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Nancy Dowd

Nancy Dowd (born 1945) is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter most famous for her films Slap Shot and Coming Home. more…

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