Coach Carter (2005)
Genre: Drama / Sport
Duration: 136 minuten
Country:
United States / Germany
Directed by: Thomas Carter
Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Rick Gonzalez and Ashanti
IMDb score:
7,4 (191.027)
Releasedate: 14 January 2005
Coach Carter plot
"It begins on the street. It ends here."
High school basketball coach Ken Carter has been criticized for his coaching style. He has his entire team sign a contract that sets requirements for their school performance. If they don't meet those requirements, they won't be allowed to play, causing Coach Carter a lot of trouble. With discipline, he wants his team to win, both on the field and in school...
Actors and actresses
Ken Carter
Kenyon Stone
Damien Carter
Timo Cruz
Junior Battle
Worm
Jason Lyle
Kyra
Maddux
Susan
Reviews & comments
Aapje81
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- 2227 messages
- 5199 votes
This is an excellent film in its genre. It's all quite moralistic and sometimes a bit improbable, but it remains captivating and atmospheric and Samuel L. Jackson is in his element.
Above average
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Theunissen
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- 12279 messages
- 5519 votes
Drama/Sports film, which is based on a 1999 newspaper report.
A basketball coach keeps his promising high school team on the bench because his pupils' academic performance falls far short. And a diploma is important, because a lucrative sports career is reserved for few, according to coach Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson).
This message, which is quite unusual for an American sports film, gives the otherwise rather predictable whole something extra.
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Lovelyboy
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- 3953 messages
- 2955 votes
Give it a try for fun, because sports dramas are always fun, although it always tends to be cliché and the same. And it's not much different with Coach Carter. The beginning is also not really startling.
A sports team with talent, the underprivileged youth, little prospect of social success, the neighborhood with its crime, and then there is of course the coach who takes on the thankless task of trying to make something out of this mess. It's not new at all and is reminiscent of a mix between Remember The Titans and Dangerous Minds. It is Jackson who, as Ken Carter, shapes the film from the outset and doesn't even do it very much like Samuel L. Jackson, but quite subdued. Nice is certainly the hard approach that bears fruit and the piece of togetherness to get Cruz back to the team. So far the movie is nice.
It's the part where Carter with his contract, rules, and especially grades and tutoring, that captivates the most and is different than usual. Where it usually revolves around that one team performance, or being discovered by a scout, it turns out that coach Carter's whole approach is not. It's about standards and values, about decency and a basis to build on later, especially if it should not work as a player. It's a shame, or possibly over-romanticized, that apparently nobody understands this about those hot-headed and short-sighted parents. Nice to mention is his approach against the gestures and the humiliation of the opponent.
Coach Carter can therefore mainly be called a fine and solid film that relies on its second part. Very nice for once.
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