A failing ice hockey team finds success with outrageously violent hockey goonery.A failing ice hockey team finds success with outrageously violent hockey goonery.A failing ice hockey team finds success with outrageously violent hockey goonery.
- Awards
- 1 win & 3 nominations
Allan F. Nicholls
- Upton
- (as Allan Nicholls)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaPaul Newman had stated on many occasions that he had more fun making this film than on any other film he has starred in, and that it remained his favorite of his own films until his death.
- GoofsJust after the wives discuss the "Great Ideas of the World" set, Jean-Guy Drouin chases a player behind the net and when they come out the other side, a director in skates and a couple members of his crew can be seen on the ice in the corner of the rink.
- Quotes
[referee skates over to Steve Carlson during the playing of the National Anthem]
Peterboro Referee: I got my eye on the three of you, guys. You pull one thing, you're out of this game! I run a clean game here. I have any trouble here, I'll suspend you!
Steve Hanson: I'm listening to the fucking song!
- Crazy creditsSpecial thanks to John Mitchell and his Johnstown Jets.
- Alternate versionsThe VHS and laserdisc version replaced Maxine Nightingale's recording of "Right Back Where We Started From" on the soundtrack. The DVD and TV versions retain the song.
- ConnectionsEdited into Yoostar 2: In the Movies (2011)
- SoundtracksRight Back Where We Started From
Written by Pierre Tubbs and J. Vincent Edwards (uncredited)
Performed by Maxine Nightingale
United Artists Records
Featured review
One of my favorite sports movies
To be completely honest, "Slap Shot" would've charmed me simply for being a hockey movie. We could do with more of those, without Emilio Estevez. But it earns its place among the better (best?) sports movies not for having underdog skill, a committed dream or thirst for winning, but for dabbling in the gutters of blue humor and distilling the sport down to its most low-brow of beer-guzzling violent fun. The closest thing I can think of to compare this to is "Major League", which is a compliment unto itself.
Even if you don't like the sport, the movie is absolutely worth your time for an unusually profane (and always likable) Paul Newman and for the psychotic Hanson brothers.
Thoroughly entertaining.
8/10
Even if you don't like the sport, the movie is absolutely worth your time for an unusually profane (and always likable) Paul Newman and for the psychotic Hanson brothers.
Thoroughly entertaining.
8/10
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Box office
- Budget
- $6,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $28,000,000
- Gross worldwide
- $28,000,000
- Runtime2 hours 3 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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