Coach Carter (Full Screen Edition)
by Thomas Carter (II)
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Actor: Nana Gbewonyo, Rick Gonzalez, Rob Brown (VI), Robert Ri'chard, Samuel L. JacksonDirector: Thomas Carter (II)
Brand: Team Marketing
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 136 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-21
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Coach Carter (Full Screen Edition)
Movie Review: Good movie with a strong message
Summary: 4 Stars
Sporting drama based on a true story. Samuel L. Jackson plays Coach Carter, who takes on the job of coaching unruly inner city high school basketball team the Richmond Oilers, who only won four games in the whole of the previous season. By gaining their respect, teaching them the importance of discipline and instilling in them the values of teamwork and respect for authority, he crafts them into a team that becomes the best high school basketball team in the region, going through the whole of the season unbeaten. But when members of the team start slipping behind on their academic grades and classroom attendance, he suspends the whole team, causing a scandal that attracts local media attention. A film with a strong message about the importance of education and another excellent performance from Samuel L. Jackson as the Coach Carter of the title. The film also has good performances from the young men playing the members of the Richmond Oilers team and a favourable turn from R&B singer Ashanti as the pregnant girlfriend of one of the team's members. Although the film was a touch melodramatic at moments I still found this to be a film that interested and held my attention throughout, despite the fact that the film was almost two and a half hours long. A good movie.
Summary of Coach Carter (Full Screen Edition)
COACH CARTER tells the inspiring true story of controversial high school basketball coach Ken Carter (Jackson). Making headlines for his emphasis on the importance of academics over athletics, Carter requests all the members of the team to sign contracts, promising to maintain a certain grade point average. When the players fail to live up to this agreement, Carter benches the entire team, locking the gym and forfeiting games to prove his point. This infuriates the community who sees this as a hindrance to the future professional athletic careers of the players. Through hard work and dedication, Carter eventually gets his point across to his team and the community, going above and beyond to ensure a solid academic future for his team.Based on a true story of the man who locked his boys out of the gym until they focused on their schoolwork, this by-the-numbers crowd-pleaser holds together because a steely Samuel L. Jackson refuses to notice the parade of clich?s he's trumpeting (the dialogue sticks to platitudes like, "Success in here is the key to success out there"). Coach Ken Carter (Jackson) takes over an unruly team of Richmond, California basketball players and teaches them how to play--and behave--like champions. His plight, which pits him against an uncooperative school board and parents who've given up hope, holds some interest, but the film is too concerned with giving us a Big Game every twenty minutes or so. The teens all have the spark of life in them (including pop star Ashanti, who features in a surprisingly well-handled teen pregnancy subplot), though the film's plodding familiarity means it's never really rousing, adding up to simply a good-natured amalgam of Stand and Deliver, Hoosiers, Dangerous Minds, and even Dead Poet's Society (one of the tougher players actually recites some inspirational poetry).--Steve Wiecking
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