The movie depicts a pathetic minor-league American hockey team that resorts to use constant fighting and violence during games to gain popularity in a declining factory town.
20 July 1943, Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA
18 November 1931, Chicago, Illinois, USA
23 July 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1 July 1957, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
24 January 1946, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1945 in Media, Pennsylvania, USA
12 August 1941, Greenwich Village, New York, USA
28 September 1944, New York City, New York, USA
30 October 1942, New York City, New York, USA
22 January 1953, Sainte-Therese, Québec, Canada
21 February 1953, New York City, New York, USA
24 March 1935, USA
13 October 1939, Hope, Arkansas, USA
26 January 1925, Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
26 May 1950, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
5 July 1953, Detroit, Michigan, USA
22 February 1928, Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA
22 October 1945, Farnham, Québec, Canada
12 May 1948, New York City, New York, USA
9 January 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
25 September 1962, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
May 02, 2013
Often raucously funny and subversive, Slap Shot is one of the few sports movies that is openly contemptuous of its sport, or at least the modern state of it.
March 14, 2007
There are still some nice touches of absurdist satirical wit hanging out along the sidelines, given extra bite by Dede Allen's superbly pacy editing.
March 14, 2007
Slap Shot has a kind of vitality to it that overwhelms most of the questions relating to consistency of character and point of view.
December 18, 2015
Newman is literally a diamond in the rough, and it requires a certain forebearance to separate his quality from the surrounding raunch.
March 14, 2007
Half the time Hill invites the audience to get off on the mayhem, the other half of the time he decries it.
March 26, 2007
Raw, raunchy, and absolutely hilarious.
March 14, 2007
This film is full of friendly slap shots, romantic icing, and passionate goals. It's well worth checking out.
August 01, 2008
An unsually abrasive sporting drama from director Hill.
April 22, 2013
[VIDEO ESSAY] "Slap Shot" is a sports movie that revels in details of milieu, plot and character. Smokestacks billow white plumes from a perpetually overcast industrial skyline. Everything is old and weather beaten. Every victory is tainted.
March 14, 2007
Funny, frank, and violent, George Roy Hill's absorbing film about minor league hockey offers a wonderful comic performance from Newman.
August 01, 2008
Slap Shot may have done a lot of fast skating and some solid body checking, but in the last period it makes a final costly slip -- and misses its goal.
January 02, 2014
Its moral pretenses left me cold.
