What is The Color of Money/Hoosiers about?

Double Feature: 25th Anniversary! THE COLOR OF MONEY, 1986, Buena Vista Pictures, 119 min. Dir. Martin Scorsese. Paul Newman reprises his role as pool shark Fast Eddie Felson in this follow-up to 1961’s THE HUSTLER. Here Fast Eddie returns to the game to show a talented younger player (Tom Cruise) how to work the tables for money, and - in a final match between teacher and student – how to sink the shots that really count. 25th Anniversary! HOOSIERS, 1986, MGM Repertory, 114 min. Gene Hackman is a high school basketball coach in 1950s Indiana whose methods - and his choice of the alcoholic Shooter (Dennis Hopper) as assistant coach - are second-guessed by nearly everyone in town. But his belief that teamwork is more important than star players eventually brings the school to the state championships. With Barbara Hershey.

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What is The Color of Money/Hoosiers about?: Double Feature: 25th Anniversary! THE COLOR OF MONEY, 1986, Buena Vista Pictures, 119 min. Dir. Martin Scorsese. Paul Newman reprises his role as pool shark Fast Eddie Felson in this follow-up to 1961’s THE HUSTLER. Here Fast Eddie returns to the game to show a talented younger player (Tom Cruise) how to work the tables for money, and - in a final match between teacher and student – how to sink the shots that really count.

25th Anniversary! HOOSIERS, 1986, MGM Repertory, 114 min. Gene Hackman is a high school basketball coach in 1950s Indiana whose methods - and his choice of the alcoholic Shooter (Dennis Hopper) as assistant coach - are second-guessed by nearly everyone in town. But his belief that teamwork is more important than star players eventually brings the school to the state championships. With Barbara Hershey.