Slap Shot
| Year of Publication |
1977
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| Publication Type |
Screenplay
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| Language |
English
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| Contributors |
Author:
Nancy Dowd |
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| Abstract |
The Charlestown Chiefs, a minor league hockey team, are perennial losers. When the local steel mill lays off 10,000 workers, Reggie Dunlop (Paul Newman), the Jets’ aging player/coach, provokes his players to violent methods to increase attendance and a winning streak follows.
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| Notes |
Johnstown is disguised as Charlestown.
This film was mostly shot in Johnstown.
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| Author Biography |
Nancy Dowd (1945— ), born in Framingham, Massachusetts, was educated at UCLA. She is the screenwriter of more than a dozen films, including Coming Home (1979), which won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Dowd’s brother, Ned, played hockey for the Johnstown Jets.
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| Time |
1970s
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| Published |
unpublished
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