(George Roy Hill, US 1977, 122 min.)

In his funniest, most foulmouthed performance, Paul Newman is Reggie Dunlop, coach and aging hockey player for the minor league Charlestown Chiefs. When the town mill announces its closing and the team faces imminent folding, Reg launches a series of crazy promotional schemes to attract interested buyers, including hiring the goonish Hanson Brothers. Nancy Dowd’s brilliantly profane script remains gut-bustingly funny while also offering an incisive critique of professional sports and life in a rustbelt town.