Movie
1977
Slap Shot is a 1977 American sports comedy film directed by George Roy Hill, written by Nancy Dowd, and starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean. It depicts a minor league ice hockey team that resorts to violent play to gain popularity in a factory town in decline.
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Last year’s economic catastrophe again revealed the sad truth about the industrial decay of many Western countries. Those problems had actually been present for a very long time, but when they first became apparent, they were sometimes met with humour. One of the films to use this approach is *Slap Shot*, the 1977 sports comedy directed by George Roy Hill. The plot is set in Charlestown, a fictional town in the Nort…More
