Take a seat (on the sideline) with TODAY.com's roundup of some of the best basketball movies. Gene Hackman's Norman Dale takes a job coaching a high school basketball team in Hickory, Indiana ...

Basketball and cinema go together ... Hollywood feel-good movie-making at its finest, this 1986 classic features Gene Hackman as Norman Dale, who brings a checkered past to his role as head ...

Gene Hackman is in superbly grizzled form as ... this cocaine fever dream is the definitive cult film of the basketball movie subgenre. Dr J himself, Julius Erving, is Moses Guthrie, the ...