Slap Shot

“Slap Shot out slaps... out swears... out laughs...”

The Charlestown Chiefs are losing games and fans in a factory town in decline, and management decides to sign the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players hired to flatten whoever skates against them. Player-coach Reggie Dunlop (Paul Newman) is happy to let them, since the empty seats are filling up. George Roy Hill shoots it in grainy 70s light, and Reg keeps skating through all of it with no plan beyond tomorrow's crowd.