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Twenty years later, George is a first-term mayor of Scranton fighting a tough re-election campaign against Norman Sharmen, who is younger, more dynamic, and, most galling of all for the bigoted George and his teammates, Jewish. A campaign publicity stunt has gone badly wrong, enhancing the view of both the voting public and his own campaign that George is a buffoon. Phil is a wealthy strip mining entrepreneur who has been donating to George's campaigns in exchange for favourable terms on the land lease for his mining operations; unbeknownst to George, he is also having an affair with his wife, Marion. James is the overworked and underpaid principal of a local junior high school and is George's campaign manager, hoping to be named superintendent of schools if George is re-elected. Tom has become an alcoholic drifter.
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Twenty years later, George is a first-term mayor of Scranton fighting a tough re-election campaign against Norman Sharmen, who is younger, more dynamic, and, most galling of all for the bigoted George and his teammates, Jewish. A campaign publicity stunt has gone badly wrong, enhancing the view of both the voting public and his own campaign that George is a buffoon. Phil is a wealthy strip mining strip-mining entrepreneur who has been donating to George's campaigns in exchange for favourable favorable terms on the land lease for his mining operations; unbeknownst to George, he is also having an affair with his wife, Marion. James is the overworked and underpaid principal of a local junior high school and is George's campaign manager, hoping to be named superintendent of schools if George is re-elected. Tom has become an alcoholic drifter.
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* RedScare: George reveals that he and Coach (who has a framed picture of Senator Joseph [=McCarthy=] on his wall) have discovered that Norman Sharmen had an uncle who was put on trial for being a Communist in 1951, and they plan to use this information to discredit him. The other characters point out that the [=McCarthy=] era was long ago, and no-one cares about Communists in the family anymore. When Phil phones Sharmen to offer him a campaign bribe and is turned down, he tries blackmailing him with the knowledge of his uncle's political inclinations, but Sharmen just laughs and says it was his cousin, not his uncle, and hangs up.
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* RedScare: George reveals that he and Coach (who has a framed picture of Senator Joseph [=McCarthy=] UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy on his wall) have discovered that Norman Sharmen had an uncle who was put on trial for being a Communist in 1951, and that they plan intend to use this information to discredit him. The other characters point out that the [=McCarthy=] era was long ago, and no-one cares about Communists in the family anymore. When Phil phones Sharmen to offer him a campaign bribe and is turned down, he tries blackmailing {{blackmail}}ing him with the knowledge of his uncle's political inclinations, but Sharmen just laughs and says it was his cousin, not his uncle, and hangs before hanging up.
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In 1952, the basketball team of Fillmore High, a small Catholic high school in Scranton, staged an upset victory in the final of the Pennsylvania State High School Basketball Championship. Four of the players -- George Sitkowski, Phil Romano, and brothers James and Tom Daley -- have held annual reunions ever since with their coach (only ever addressed as [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep "Coach"]]) at his house on the anniversary of their victory. The fifth player, Martin Rose, has refused to attend any of the reunions and wants nothing to do with Coach or his former teammates.
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In 1952, the basketball team of Fillmore High, a small Catholic high school in Scranton, staged an upset victory in the final of the Pennsylvania State High School Basketball Championship. Four of the players -- George Sitkowski, Phil Romano, and brothers James and Tom Daley -- have held annual reunions ever since with their coach (only ever addressed as [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep "Coach"]]) at his house on the anniversary of their victory. The fifth player, Martin Rose, has refused to attend any of the reunions reunions, and wants nothing to do with Coach or his former teammates.
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''That Championship Season'' is a 1972 American stage play written by Jason Miller (also known for playing Father Karras in ''Film/TheExorcist''), which won both the UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play in its first year of performances.
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''That Championship Season'' is a 1972 American stage play written by Jason Miller (also known for playing Father Karras in ''Film/TheExorcist''), which won both the UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize for Drama and the Tony Award a MediaNotes/{{Tony Award|Winners}} for Best Play in its first year of performances.
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The play has been [[TheFilmOfThePlay adapted for the screen]] twice, both using scripts written by Jason Miller; once directed by Miller for Creator/TheCannonGroup in 1982 with Creator/RobertMitchum as Coach and Creator/PaulSorvino (reprising his role of Phil from the original stage run), Creator/BruceDern as George, Creator/StacyKeach as James, and Creator/MartinSheen as Tom, and once for television in 1999 with Sorvino (who also directed) now playing Coach and Creator/VincentDOnofrio as Phil, Creator/TonyShalhoub as George, Creator/GarySinise as Tom, and Creator/TerryKinney as James.
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The play has been [[TheFilmOfThePlay adapted for the screen]] twice, both using scripts written by Jason Miller; once directed by Miller for Creator/TheCannonGroup in 1982 with Creator/RobertMitchum as Coach and Creator/PaulSorvino (reprising his role of Phil from the original stage run), Creator/BruceDern as George, Creator/StacyKeach as James, and Creator/MartinSheen as Tom, and once again for television in 1999 with Sorvino (who also directed) now playing Coach and Creator/VincentDOnofrio as Phil, Creator/TonyShalhoub as George, Creator/GarySinise as Tom, and Creator/TerryKinney as James.
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* JerkAss: While all of the players qualify to some extent, Phil is one of the top contenders after his [[spoiler: affair with George's wife Marion is revealed. While he plays somewhat contrite when George has a loaded gun on him, he later tells the others when George is out of the room that she came in part to get campaign financing for George, and boasts that he made her earn it, regaling them with all the various places in the hotel room, including the floor and the tub, that he had sex with Marion on or in.]]
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The play has been [[TheFilmOfThePlay adapted for the screen]] twice, both using scripts written by Jason Miller; once directed by Miller for Creator/TheCannonGroup in 1982 with Creator/RobertMitchum as Coach and Creator/PaulSorvino (reprising his role from the original stage run), Creator/BruceDern, Creator/StacyKeach, and Creator/MartinSheen as the players, and once for television in 1999 with Sorvino (who also directed) now playing Coach and Creator/VincentDOnofrio, Creator/TonyShalhoub, Creator/GarySinise, and Creator/TerryKinney as the players.
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The play has been [[TheFilmOfThePlay adapted for the screen]] twice, both using scripts written by Jason Miller; once directed by Miller for Creator/TheCannonGroup in 1982 with Creator/RobertMitchum as Coach and Creator/PaulSorvino (reprising his role of Phil from the original stage run), Creator/BruceDern, Creator/StacyKeach, Creator/BruceDern as George, Creator/StacyKeach as James, and Creator/MartinSheen as the players, Tom, and once for television in 1999 with Sorvino (who also directed) now playing Coach and Creator/VincentDOnofrio, Creator/TonyShalhoub, Creator/GarySinise, Creator/VincentDOnofrio as Phil, Creator/TonyShalhoub as George, Creator/GarySinise as Tom, and Creator/TerryKinney as James.
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original opening night cast including the afofrementioned Sorvino as Phil, Creator/CharlesDurning as George, and Creator/RichardDysart as Coach. During the run, Coach was also played by Creator/PatHingle.
The Broadway revival starred Creator/BrianCox as Coach, Creator/ChrisNoth as Phil, Creator/JimGaffigan as George, Creator/KieferSutherland as James, and Creator/JasonPatric as Tom.
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The Broadway revival starred Creator/BrianCox as Coach, Creator/ChrisNoth as Phil, Creator/JimGaffigan as George, Creator/KieferSutherland as James, and Creator/JasonPatric as Tom.
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''That Championship Season'' is a 1972 stage play by American playwright Jason Miller (also known for playing Father Karras in ''Film/TheExorcist'') which won both the UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play in its first year of performances.
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''That Championship Season'' is a 1972 American stage play written by American playwright Jason Miller (also known for playing Father Karras in ''Film/TheExorcist'') ''Film/TheExorcist''), which won both the UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play in its first year of performances.
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The play has been adapted for the screen twice, both using scripts written by Jason Miller; once directed by Miller for Creator/TheCannonGroup in 1982 with Creator/RobertMitchum as Coach and Creator/PaulSorvino (reprising his role from the original stage run), Creator/BruceDern, Creator/StacyKeach, and Creator/MartinSheen as the players, and once for television in 1999 with Sorvino (who also directed) now playing Coach and Creator/VincentDOnofrio, Creator/TonyShalhoub, Creator/GarySinise, and Creator/TerryKinney as the players.
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The play has been [[TheFilmOfThePlay adapted for the screen screen]] twice, both using scripts written by Jason Miller; once directed by Miller for Creator/TheCannonGroup in 1982 with Creator/RobertMitchum as Coach and Creator/PaulSorvino (reprising his role from the original stage run), Creator/BruceDern, Creator/StacyKeach, and Creator/MartinSheen as the players, and once for television in 1999 with Sorvino (who also directed) now playing Coach and Creator/VincentDOnofrio, Creator/TonyShalhoub, Creator/GarySinise, and Creator/TerryKinney as the players.
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* RaisedCatholic: George is a Polish Catholic, Phil is an Italian Catholic, and James, Tom, and Coach are Irish Catholics. The importance of their faith is highlighted in the play by the presence on Coach's wall of a framed picture of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin Father Charles Coughlin]], a notoriously anti-Semitic Catholic preacher who had his own radio show and magazine in the 1930s but was silenced by the U.S. government after the outbreak of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
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The play has been adapted for the screen twice, both using scripts written by Jason Miller; once directed by Miller for Creator/TheCannonGroup in 1982 with Creator/RobertMitchum as Coach and Paul Sorvino Creator/PaulSorvino (reprising his role from the original stage run), Creator/BruceDern, Creator/StacyKeach, and Creator/MartinSheen as the players, and once for television in 1999 with Sorvino (who also directed) now playing Coach and Creator/VincentDOnofrio, Creator/TonyShalhoub, Creator/GarySinise, and Creator/TerryKinney as the players.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Phil is in the middle of a long-term affair with George's wife, Marion; he tries to justify it by saying that Marion is sleeping with him to help George's political career. Phil and his wife Claire are eventually revealed to have a functionally open marriage, with both pursuing numerous affairs.
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* ChekovsGun: A literal example with the loaded gun Coach keeps on display - Tom messes around with it to scare George, then George genuinely threatens Phil with it, and then James accidentally fires it causing Coach to lose his temper with them all for the first time.
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* ChekovsGun: ChekhovsGun: A literal example with the loaded gun Coach keeps on display - Tom messes around with it to scare George, then George genuinely threatens Phil with it, and then James accidentally fires it causing Coach to lose his temper with them all for the first time.
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* AloofBigBrother: James to Tom increasingly throughout the play. Though James often complains that he's had to look after Tom, he only ever really interacts with Tom to tell him to shut up and stop drinking and is very quick to condemn him after Tom's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the Coach.
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* HeelRealisation: The entire play seems to be one for Tom as he realises, after not having been in touch with the others for several years (and finding out from Martin Rose exactly what happened to cause ''him'' to sever contact with the group and Coach), just how messed up all their lives and expectations of life had become.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tom, to some extent. He's a crude and vulgar alcoholic but he's also the only one remotely willing to confront the reality of the group's respective situations and he calls out several of their more bigoted beliefs as well.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Phil. George's wife Marion is heavily implied to have been this way in the past as well.
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* TheSociopath: More than any of the others (despite their individual issues), Phil displays a lot of sociopathic tendencies throughout the play.
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Coach is only ever addressed as such by the players. In the film adaptations, even the other residents of his neighborhood address him as "Coach" (although in the 1982 film, he's given the name Delaney.)
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Coach is only ever addressed as such by the players. In the film adaptations, even the other residents of his neighborhood address him as "Coach" (although in the 1982 film, he's given the name Delaney.)Delaney).
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* RaisedCatholic: George is a Polish Catholic, Phil is an Italian Catholic, and James, Tom, and Coach are Irish Catholics. The importance of their faith is highlighted in the play by the presence on Coach's wall of a framed picture of Father Charles Coughlin, a notoriously bigoted Catholic radio preacher in the United States in the 1950s.
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* RaisedCatholic: George is a Polish Catholic, Phil is an Italian Catholic, and James, Tom, and Coach are Irish Catholics. The importance of their faith is highlighted in the play by the presence on Coach's wall of a framed picture of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin Father Charles Coughlin, Coughlin]], a notoriously bigoted anti-Semitic Catholic radio preacher who had his own radio show and magazine in the United States in 1930s but was silenced by the 1950s.U.S. government after the outbreak of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
