Apex Mountain
All the basketball guys; sports movies
In the discussion (6)
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- Hackman, no; Hopper, no.
- All the basketball guys in the cast, yes; basketball itself, no.
- Sports movies: it's close, but a case is made that the genre peaks here after 12 years of bangers; afterward come rip-offs or movies merely rooted in sports.
- It also set a template for later Disney sports movies.
- Mid-80s Cold War fear made feel-good movies an escape, and The Day After was emotionally scarring.
- Indiana's apex is Keith Smart.