Slap Shot R

Slap Shot out slaps... out swears... out laughs...
Slap Shot
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 3 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: March 26, 2002
  • Originally Released: 1977
  • Label: Universal Studios

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Total Count: 33

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 39,923
Rating: C+ -- Its moral pretenses left me cold. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Jan 2, 2014
Slap Shot remains the greatest sports flick of the 1970s. Full Review
Rolling Stone
Sep 21, 2017
Rating: 3/4 -- Easily the greatest hockey film ever made. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Sep 21, 2017
Newman is literally a diamond in the rough, and it requires a certain forebearance to separate his quality from the surrounding raunch. Full Review
Washington Post
Dec 18, 2015
A comedy that is at times entertaining and occasionally sentimental. [Full Review in Spanish] Full Review
El Pais (Spain)
Jul 25, 2019
...Paul Newman's foul-mouthed hockey comedy is a classic of sorts in the rarefied sports-cinema genre...
USA Today
Jan 8, 1999
There are still some nice touches of absurdist satirical wit hanging out along the sidelines, given extra bite by Dede Allen's superbly pacy editing. Full Review
Time Out
Mar 14, 2007

Product Description:

A rougher version of George Roy Hill's pet theme of men as overaged adolescents, SLAP SHOT stars Paul Newman as Reggie Dunlop, the venerable player-coach of the Charlestown Chiefs, a fifth-rate minor league hockey team. When their blue-collar town falls prey to Rust Belt ills of the 1970s, attendance drops, and the greedy owner starts looking for a buyer, anxious to cash out. Dunlop is informed that the players need to crank up the box office to keep their jobs in what will likely be their last season. To the coach's dismay, general manager Joe McGrath (Strother Martin) imports the Hanson brothers, a hockey Three Stooges who like to assault soda machines and play with toys. But once Dunlop turns them loose, they're a Panzer division on ice, and the team starts winning by adopting their bone-crushing style. Although the team is on the upswing, Dunlop's wife, Francine (Jennifer Warren), seems to be through with him, and the isolated wives of the other players aren't much happier with their fate. This sidesplitting, profanity saturated film is one of the funniest ever made about any sport. While writer Nancy Dowd intended to probe darker issues--such as the greed of ownership, the blood lust of fans, and the childishness of the players--Hill submerges them in raucous laughter. Newman is near his peak as the romantic, manipulative, womanizing, hard-drinking coach, and the high-sticking Hanson brothers achieve comic immortality in their only film appearance.

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  • Sales Rank: 15,962
  • UPC: 025192179327
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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