Hoosiers VHS Tape
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"Hoosiers" on VHS, Hemdale Film Corporation's 1986 home video release of one of the most precisely observed sports films ever committed to tape. Gene Hackman plays Norman Dale, a disgraced college coach handed the head job at a fictional Hickory High in rural Indiana. The tape you're looking at is the physical format that first brought this movie into American living rooms, before cable rotation made it ambient wallpaper, before streaming flattened it into a thumbnail.
The film came out theatrically in November 1986, produced by Carter De Haven and Angelo Pizzo, written by Pizzo and directed by David Anspaugh. It was shot on location in Indiana, real gyms, real small-town light, real corn. Dennis Hopper earned an Oscar nomination for his performance as Shooter, the town drunk and former local star. The story is based loosely on the 1954 Milan High School team that won the Indiana state championship against all probability, a piece of Midwestern sports mythology that had already embedded itself in regional consciousness before the film gave it national reach. What the film got right is the austerity: Hickory runs basic sets, the gyms are small and loud, and nothing about the production glamorizes poverty. The Hemdale VHS release arrived in that pre-Blockbuster period when home video was still a novelty format and a tape at this price point represented a real commitment from the household buying it.
Blue sky over Indiana farmland, a pair of Chucks doing all the narrative work.
This copy is a Hemdale label release from 1986. The cover art is the one collectors know: worn black Converse Chuck Taylors on a hardwood floor, Indiana farmland visible in the background, a composition that tells you exactly what kind of movie this is without overselling it. Condition on tapes like this comes down to a few signals: has the shell been cracked, is the label clean or peeling, does the ribbon sit flat without slack. Check the tape window on this one before you finalize, because ribbon tension is the quickest read on playback viability you can get without hitting play.
OWNER VERIFY: Confirm Hemdale label and 1986 copyright date on the spine or cassette shell.
Blue sky over Indiana farmland, a pair of Chucks doing all the narrative work.
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Inspected in Las Vegas on June 2026. Each piece is a single unit, sold as inspected.
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This hoosiers vhs tape originates from the 80s era[01], represents Hemdale[02]'s output, . Each piece in the shop is a single unit, inspected by hand in Las Vegas before listing. The data manifest to the right records the fields on file for this lot; where a field is empty it has been omitted rather than guessed.
INSPECTED IN STORE / 707 E FREMONT, LAS VEGAS
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- Hemdale
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- 80s
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