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Gene Hackman dead

She was 38. He was 56. I know a lot of couples with that spread.

That was irl, but she seemed younger in the movie. Anyway, they didn't look like a couple. It didn't move the plot. Might as well have gone full 80s and showed her bewbs in the locker room.

Coach should have gone after the mom. She's the one who made the move to invite him over for dinner. :)
 
The one kid came back because his dad dragged him back and made him apologize to the coach and ask for his spot back. Was that not Buddy?
 
That was awesome. Did you know that the school this movie is based on is only 10 miles west of Cincinnati?

The one thing that bugged me was the whole "no school this small has ever gone this far" vibe. Basketball was only like 20 years old at that point. Maybe 30. It would be like someone saying that about a volleyball team today. I know, trivial. But it always made me think they were stretching it too far.
 
French Connection was one of my dad's favorite movies. I never watched it all the way through until this weekend. Gene Hackman is an all timer, as is Al Pacino.

I had never seen it either until this week. Really good movie. The car chase seen was sick. Only strange scene was miraculously putting the car back together with the drugs still in it after tearing it into tiny pieces. Maybe I missed something, but I was like WTF just happened??
 
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