Genre: Drama, Sports, Teenage, School / Campus, Murder, True Story, Coming Of Age
Tagline: It begins on the street. It ends here.
Plot: Playing high school basketball takes more than skill, perseverance, discipline and teamwork especially when you play for Coach Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson). Just to step on Carter’s court takes a signed contract that assures him you’ll be performing at your best on the court and in the classroom. On Coach Carter’s watch, it’s not just about winning a basketball game... it’s about his team’s future.That’s why, when some of Carter’s players let their grades slip, he chooses to padlock the gym, keeping the undefeated team from practicing and from playing. Standing up to school officials who oppose him, not to mention a town full of angry parents, many of whom see basketball as the only way for their sons to get out of Richmond, Carter refuses to back down. Having attended Richmond High himself, he has literally been in those boys’ shoes. Like them, he loved playing the game. And even though he was a very accomplished player, and still held many of the school’s records, it is education not basketball —that Carter feels led him to be the man he is today. Encouraging others to put education before recreation, Carter wants to leave a legacy. He wants players to see beyond their hoop dreams and see a future with endless options and
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 For better or for worse, Coach Carter is a typical sports movie  --Danny Baldwin (BucketReviews.com)
“Coach Carter” is a moralistic movie in the spirit of an after-school special, falling somewhere between inspirational sermon and cautionary tale. But each time it risks devolving into the routine, preachy clichés of so many other feel-good spectacles, it finds ways to redeem itself and to be relevant to a society and a culture that is too often whitewashed in mainstream cinema.  --Steven Snyder
For one thing it's too long, largely because several of the games (and we see way too many of them) have slow-motion sequences that go on for ages. Similarly, there are at least three scenes where Jackson delivers a speech and then someone yells, "That'sBULLSHIT!" and storms off the court, so the film does start to feel repetitive at times...film has some worthwhile things to say about the value of education and is definitely worth seeing for Jackson's performance.  --Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
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| Written by |
| John Gatins
Hard Ball, Another Day in Paradise, Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story |
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| Cast |
Samuel L. Jackson
Pulp Fiction, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Kill Bill: Vol. 2 |
 | Rob Brown
Finding Forrester, Take the Lead, The Orphan King |
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 | Ashanti
John Tucker Must Die, Bride & Prejudice, The Muppets' Wizard of Oz |
 | Vincent Laresca
Romeo + Juliet, K-PAX, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift |
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Trevor Rabin
Armageddon, Snakes on a Plane, Gone in Sixty Seconds |
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| I'll give "Coach Carter" this: It's so hell-bent on being PG-13 suitable for high-school-age audiences, who should see it, that it omits the vulgar language that as students they would find inescapable in school and in social situations. --Ed Blank
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