Based on the non-fiction best-seller about Hoosiers basketball coach Bobby Knight, this unimaginative adaptation (the first original film produced by cable sports network ESPN) will neither convert critics nor give fans a new perspective on the salty coach. A former military man, Knight (Brian Dennehy) brings battlefield discipline to his job coaching the Hoosiers, Indiana University's highly regarded team. Though at home he's the devoted single parent of a teenaged boy, he's a tyrant at basketball practice. His coaching style favors censure before praise and his players aren't the only ones on the receiving end of his tirades: If he doesn't like a referee's call, he...
Released:
2002
Rated:
R
Length:
87 mins