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That Championship Season is a american film of genre Drama directed by Jason Miller released in USA on 9 december 1982 with Robert Mitchum
That Championship Season (1982)
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Add to a movie listThat Championship Season is Jason Miller's 1982 film version of his 1973 Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway play of the same name. It stars Robert Mitchum, Martin Sheen, Bruce Dern, Stacy Keach and Paul Sorvino and was filmed on location in Scranton, Pennsylvania where it is set.
In 1999, Sorvino directed a new adaptation of the play for Showtime in which he played Mitchum's role as the coach. This version co-starred Vincent D'Onofrio, Gary Sinise, Tony Shalhoub and Terry Kinney.
Synopsis
It has been 25 years since the 1957 Fillmore High School (fictional) basketball team won the Pennsylvania state championship. The coach and four of the victors regularly gather to relive the glory of their shining moment.Actors
Robert Mitchum
(Coach Delaney)
Martin Sheen
(Tom Daley)
Bruce Dern
(George Sitkowski)
Paul Sorvino
(Phil Romano)
Stacy Keach
(James Daley)
Arthur Franz
(Macken)
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