‘Hoosiers’
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the landmark sports movie Hoosiers. Many came before it and many came after it, but in telling the story of a small-town Indiana high-school basketball team coached by a fish-out-of-water Gene Hackman, Hoosiers is in almost every single way the definitive sports movie. All the beats and themes — the outsider whom the town learns to love; the hotshot kid who learns humility; the love story that isn’t as important as the love of the game — it’s all there, wrapped up in Jerry Goldsmith’s perfectly swelling instrumental score.