Coach Carter (2005)

• Year: 2005
• Released: 14 Jan 2005
• Country: United States, Germany
• Adwords: 3 wins & 15 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0393162/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Coach_Carter
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/coach-carter
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: PG-13
• Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
• Runtime: 136 min
• Writer: Mark Schwahn, John Gatins
• Director: Thomas Carter
• Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Rick Gonzalez, Robert Ri’chard
• Keywords: sports, high school, teacher, basketball, black people,

	7.3/10
	57/100
	64% – Critics
	85% – Audience

Coach Carter Storyline

In 1999, Ken Carter accepts the job of basketball coach for his old high school in a poor area of Richmond, CA. As much dismayed by the poor attitudes of his players as well as their dismal play performance, Carter sets about to change both. He imposes a strict regime typified in written contracts that demand respectful behavior, a dress code and good grades for players. Any initial resistance is soon dispelled as the team under Carter’s tutelage becomes a undefeated competitor. However, when the overconfident team’s behavior begins to stray with too many doing poorly in class, Carter takes immediate action. To the outrage of the team, the school and the community, Carter cancels all team activities and locks the court until the team shows acceptable academic improvement. In the ensuing debate, Carter fights to keep his methods, determined to show the boys that they need good values for their futures and eventually finds he has affected them more profoundly than he ever expected.

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Earnest After School Special

Successful sporting goods store owner Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson) accepts the basketball coach job from his mentor at his old high school. It’s a poor underachieving school. He forces his kids to sign a contract to maintain academics. He calls the kids ‘sir’ as a sign of respect. It’s a struggle with the kids, but it’s even more of a struggle with the adults. It climaxes to a point where coach Carter locks out the players when they don’t maintain their academics.

This is all a very earnest after school special. Coach Carter is a saint beyond reproach. The thing that I wish for is an early ally for Carter. It seems that everybody especially the adults are piling on. Even if true, it doesn’t make for a compelling story. It’s overkill. An ally could create more complex relationships in the adults of the movie.

The other thing I noticed is that the movie reaches its climax around the lockout. The games after the lockout don’t have much drama. The movie is about the lockout, not about any championships or game winners.

Hoop dreams for the Oilers

Coach Carter is based on a true story of Richmond High School basketball coach Ken Carter (Samuel L Jackson) who made headlines in 1999 for benching his high school basketball team due to poor academic results.

The film is not really about basketball that is just a backdrop. It is more about Ken Carter who becomes head coach of his old high school, where the players are rude, disrespectful and ill disciplined.

Carter makes them each sign a personal contract regarding training, discipline, attendance and school grades. Although a disciplinarian the team has an unbeaten run and turns around the lives of their players even though some in the school and many of the parents are unhappy with his methods.

I guess I would loath to have Ken Carter as my coach but in this movie with its assortment of High school misfits that are straight out of ghetto casting, it works.

Samuel L Jackson has enough charisma and likability for you to invest in his character. The film is enjoyable enough, the music blends well with the urban drama and there are a few future stars in early roles in this film.

“Rich what? Richmond!”

It was gratifying to watch a picture in which a black man takes a group of young teens to task for their casual use of the ‘N’ word, and instruct them in the value of an education to escape their poverty and unfulfilling family lives. This was made over a decade ago and things weren’t as turbulent yet, but if Samuel L. Jackson came out with the same sentiments today, he’d be raked over the coals by the political correctness police. Sad, because speaking the truth about something causes an uproar in the media and gets the Twitter gang going full force, and Jackson would have to defend himself against being an Uncle Tom, or be forced to walk it back under the pretense of being sorry he offended anyone. You know the drill.

Regarding the story, it’s pretty formulaic as most sports themed movies are, so the value is in the messaging mentioned earlier. I didn’t know going in that the picture was based on a true story, so that makes it’s lessons more accessible for viewers accustomed to feel good sports films that have no connection to reality. Just like the earlier movie “Hoosiers”, this one places value on relationships, discipline, teamwork, finding the good in somebody, and ultimately, redemption. The fact that the Richmond Oilers missed out on a Cinderella, story book ending shouldn’t diminish it’s impact as a valuable life lesson for those in unfortunate circumstances. The team may have lost that final championship game, but they emerged winners in life.