Coach Carter
Controversy surrounds high school basketball coach Ken Carter when he is criticized by the players and their parents, he sticks to his guns, determined that they excel in class as well as on the basketball court.
24 October 1983, Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
1971, Costa Mesa, California, USA
4 October 1978, Davenport, Iowa, USA
16 February 1974, Harvard, Massachusetts, USA
December 11, 2008
By making the choices the filmmakers did here, we get a movie that may not be profound, but it's both highly entertaining for its sports and fascinating for its social issues.
January 27, 2005
Carter gives every sports-drama cliche a chance to play. No bad idea is benched.
March 25, 2008
This is supposed to be about setting high standards, yet it's full of fudged ultimatums; in the end I couldn't be sure whether its morality was complex or just confused.
December 22, 2010
Engaging film with a terrific message.
February 09, 2006
Although this is an inspirational genre pic that pushes all the requisite buttons throughout, you canâ(TM)t help but feel that rather than benching the team, director Thomas Carter should have benched a few of those ham-fisted sporting clichà (C)s instead.
April 16, 2009
Samuel Jackson returns to form behind a long string of disappointing performances as an ethically minded basketball coach at a tough inner city high school in Richmond, California.
January 25, 2005
Too vicious to speak to bleeding-heart liberals, too pro-academia to speak to No Child Left Behind advocates, and too preachy to speak to youths.
December 30, 2008
While the film is over the top at times, Coach Carter has a big heart that doesn't shy away from challenging the American education system.
July 05, 2005
Saved by bursts of energy and inventiveness.
December 22, 2008
How terribly ironic that the story of an educator who dared to challenge the mental capacity of his students can produce a film that so shamelessly spoon-feeds its audience.
March 18, 2011
With another in a long line of strong performances by Jackson, and some excellent basketball choreography, Coach Carter is fun, hopeful, occasionally silly and, what can I say, inspiring.
October 06, 2006
Samuel L. Jackson shouts, yells, bellows, and screams his way through the fact-inspired film
