That Championship Season (1982) on Netflix
Each year Coach Delaney and four of his 1957 Fillmore High championship players gather to relive the win. Mayor George Sitkowski fights for re-election and wants Phil Romano on his side.
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Plot summary
Twenty-five years have passed since the Fillmore High team won the Pennsylvania state championship, and the coach and four of his former players keep up the reunion. George Sitkowski, mayor of Scranton, is fighting a fierce re-election campaign. James Daley is a school principal who is underpaid and unhappy, while his brother Tom has drifted into heavy drinking. Phil Romano, the richest of them, bends the law to get what he wants, and George badly needs his support. The coach still treats their adult troubles as though his boys were having a bad game. The evening's celebratory intent does not last.
Cast
- Michael Bernoskyas Jacks
- Joseph Kellyas Malley
- James M. Langanas Cooney
- Tony Santanielloas Marelli
- William G. McAndrewas Harrison
- Barry Weineras Sharman
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about That Championship Season (1982)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- William Friedkin was originally set to direct the film, having worked with playwright Jason Miller on The Exorcist, and before dropping out he offered the part of Coach Delaney to William Holden, who was interested but died before he could accept it.
- The film did a great deal to help the reputation of the fledgling studio Cannon Films, which had financed it.
- Composer Bill Conti's score was supplemented by the West Scranton High School Band, and a limited-release 1200-copy soundtrack CD followed on the La-La Land Records label in 2009.
