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Show Winners and losers 4 a basket, hit a home run or just win. After a cold night on the football foot-ball field or in the stands of a basketball bas-ketball game, one video that will boost your spirits and bring back a lot of memories is "Hoosiers." This story takes place in Hickory, Indiana, and we're back to the 1950's again. Now you might feel that this is too long ago to count but the game is the same and so is that winning feeling. Coach Norman Dale (Gene Hackman) stars as the coach who starts over in a small town where everyone's whole life is basketball. basket-ball. Despite opposition from the town, hardships and his own bad temper he takes nine boys from a small town team to the state championship. His one rule, "what I say when it comes to this basketball team is the law," pushes the boys into a belief in themselves and a winning streak. Watch this movie and you'll remember re-member that great feeling you get when your team wins. Watch the other team in the last scenes of the championship game and you'll also remember the bitterness of defeat. Too bad winning sometimes some-times means someone else has to lose. "Flight of the Navigator" is also a game. This time the team is one wild space ship with a lot of personality, one 12-year-old boy and his family who are cast against NASA and the unquenchable unquench-able thirst for knowledge! David Freeman (Joey Cramer) plays the 12-year-old who has been missing and presumed dead for eight years. When he finally turns up, instead of being 20, he is still twelve. His mother, father and brother have all aged but the UFO who collected him as a specimen dropped him off forward in time so he missed out on eight years. David, of course, becomes a medical mystery and is finally car-ried car-ried away to Cape Canaveral by NASA. At the Cape, David and the space ship get back together after NASA discovers that David's mind is full of star charts and strange alien languages. Max, the being that runs the ship, needs the information in David's head to get back home. When David and Max team up they have a wonderful wonder-ful time. The questions are tough, will David get to go back to his parents, will NASA ever give up or will David have to fly out into the sunset with Max. As in so many other movies, the government, characterized here as NASA, is portrayed as being By TRINETTE HUBER (Videos furnished courtesy of Video USA) Fall brings brilliant leaf colors and boring yard cleanup projects. It represents a time when you are wishing you hadn't been so anxious an-xious for school to start. Failing notices.. .being grounded.. .colder nights.. .shorter days. Somewhere in this gloom there must be a glimmer glim-mer of light, a doorway in from the cold. How about school spirit! Now you might flinch at the sound of those two words but have you ever felt warmer than in a crowd of yelling bodies, all of them angry with the referees or the opposed team? How about the look of glowing glory on your team's face as they score a touchdown, make stacked with people who care more about their projects and discoveries dis-coveries than they do about people. peo-ple. But the movie is also about winning. David wins just as the Hoosier Huskers do, even though the opposing team is bigger, tougher and more experienced. This time you don't feel a bit sorry for that losing team. j |
