To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
The film satirizes both the corporate commercialization of professional sports and the extreme violence embraced by a struggling minor league team, presenting a darkly comedic and nuanced look at desperation and masculinity without explicitly promoting a specific political ideology or solution.
The film features a cast that is predominantly white, consistent with its 1970s minor league hockey setting, and does not incorporate diverse casting choices or character representations. The narrative reinforces traditional white, male identities without offering any critical perspective or engaging with themes of diversity, equity, or inclusion.
Slap Shot, a 1977 sports comedy, focuses on a minor league hockey team and its struggles. The narrative does not include any explicit LGBTQ+ characters or themes, resulting in no depiction of queer identity or experiences within the film's storyline.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Slap Shot (1977) is an original film with no prior source material, historical figures, or previous installments from which characters' genders could be established. All characters' genders are original to this film.
Slap Shot (1977) is an original film based on an original screenplay. There are no pre-existing source materials, prior adaptations, or historical figures for its characters that would establish a canonical race to be altered.
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