Amazon.com Essentials:
Paul Newman and his Butch Cassidy
director, George Roy Hill, made a very original comedy in this 1977
story of an over-the-hill player/coach (Newman) for a lousy hockey
team who gets results when he teaches his players to get dirty. One of
the most hilariously profane movies ever to come out of Hollywood,
this is the kind of film that makes its own rules as it goes
along. Newman is very good, and while Hill goes for the gusto in terms
of capturing the violence of this world, his instinct for comedy has
never been sharper. Great support from Strother Martin, Paul Dooley,
and the rest. --Tom Keogh
