About this episode
The twelfth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1977 features our future cult classic pick, George Roy Hill’s Slap Shot . Directed by George Roy Hill from a script by Nancy Dowd and starring Paul Newman, Michael Ontkean, Lindsay Crouse, Strother Martin and Jennifer Warren, Slap Shot was a critical and commercial failure upon its release but has since built up a cult following. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Gary Arnold in the Washington Post ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1977/04/01/slap-shot-vulgar-rowdy-mixed-up-and-commercial-mischief/ebb68deb-c72e-4639-94ef-ace79822cc0e/ ), Vincent Canby in the New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1977/02/26/archives/hot-time-on-ice-newmans-slap-shot.html ), and Pauline Kael in the New Yorker . Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1977 installment featuring our audience choice winner, Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind .