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Slap Shot is a 1977 American sports comedy film directed by George Roy Hill, written by Nancy Dowd, and starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean. It depicts a minor league ice hockey team that resorts to violent play to gain popularity in a factory town in decline.

Dowd based much of her script, as well as several of the characters, on her brother Ned Dowd`s playing experiences on 1970s minor league professional hockey teams.

While Slap Shot received mixed reviews upon release and was only a moderate box-office success, it has since become widely regarded as a cult film.

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In the fictional Rust Belt town of Charlestown, Pennsylvania, the local steel mill is about to close permanently and lay off 10,000 workers. This threatens the existence of the town`s minor league ice hockey team, the Charlestown Chiefs, which is already struggling with a losing season, indifferent players, and an increasingly hostile crowd. Player-coach Reggie Dunlop, like most of the team, has no employment prospects outside hockey. As a money-saving measure, the team`s penny-pinching manager, Joe McGrath, begins selling equipment and signs three young, immature brothers, the Hansons.

After seeing Charlestown fans responding positively to violence, Dunlop unleashes the Hansons, whose play mainly consists of brutalizing the other team. Although some of the players are slow to adopt this increasingly violent and thuggish style of play, it excites the fans.

Dunlop learns that the owner plans to sell the team. To motivate the players, he leaks to a newspaper a fabricated story about a potential sale to a community in Florida, hoping that if the team becomes popular, it will actually happen. The brawls are bringing fans to the games, increasing attendance and making that prospect more likely.

Ned Braden, the team`s top scorer, refuses to take part in the violent antics; Dunlop attempts to get him to fight by exploiting Braden`s marital troubles, but to no avail. Games begin to devolve into bench-clearing brawls which become increasingly violent. Dunlop even offers a $100 reward to any player who assaults Tim McCracken, the player-coach of the rival Syracuse team. The Chiefs rise up the ranks to become contenders for the championship.

Eventually, Dunlop meets the reclusive team owner, Anita McCambridge, and learns that his efforts to increase the team`s popularity and value through violence have been for naught, as McCambridge could sell the team if she wished, but would make more money if she folded the team as a tax write-off. Dunlop decides to abandon the strategy of violence for the championship game, believing it to be his last, and the rest of the team agrees. However, their opponents from Syracuse have stocked their team with violent `goons,` many of whom were previously suspended from the league or even imprisoned. After the Chiefs are crushed during the first period while playing a non-violent style of `old time hockey` and getting booed by their fans, a furious McGrath tells them that various National Hockey League scouts are watching the game.

Dunlop and the rest of the team, except Braden, immediately switch back to brawling, much to the delight of the fans. However, when Braden sees his estranged wife cheering for the Chiefs, he enters the rink, but instead of joining the brawl he performs a live striptease, adding to the audience`s enjoyment and breaking up the fight. When McCracken protests this `obscene` demonstration and sucker-punches the referee for dismissing him, Syracuse is disqualified, granting the Chiefs the championship. After their win, with the Chiefs effectively folded, Dunlop accepts the offer to be the player-coach to a Minnesota team, intending to bring his teammates with him.