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Overview
Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.
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- 📖Biography🎭Drama🏀Sport
Release
2005-01-14
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English
Runtime
2 hour 16 minutes
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Roger Ebert
"I see a system that's designed for you to fail," he tells his players, pointing out that young black men are 80 percent more likely to go to prison than to go to college.
rogerebert.com/reviews/coach-carter-2005
Variety
Samuel L. Jackson, in the title role, lifts the film above familiar sports movie fare, however, imbuing a man who preaches the straight-and-narrow with magnetic appeal.
variety.com/2005/film/reviews/coach-carter-1200528811/#!
BBC
"AN UNCOMMONLY SAVVY MESSAGE"
bbc.co.uk/films/2005/02/02/coach_carter_2005_review.shtml
guardian.co.uk Film
Samuel L Jackson carries this motivational sports movie, based on a true story, as Ken Carter, a basketball coach handing out tough love to the multi-ethnic playas on a sinking high-school team.
theguardian.com/film/News_Story/Critic_Review/Guardian_review/0,,1424472,00.html
IMDb
"It's not about the sports, it's about the students. And it's not always about what you put in, it's about what you take out."
imdb.com/title/tt0393162/
IMDb
Classic story rings true because of Samuel L. Jackson's complex and sensitive acting and stunningly realized by Thomas Carter.
imdb.com/title/tt0393162/reviews
Rotten Tomatoes
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.
rottentomatoes.com/m/coach_carter/reviews
