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Coach Carter (2005) -- Samuel L. Jackson plays the controversial high school basketball coach who benched his undefeated team due to their collective poor academic record in 1999.
Coach Carter (2005) -- Samuel L. Jackson plays the controversial high school basketball coach who benched his undefeated team due to their collective poor academic record in 1999.
Coach Carter (2005) -- Samuel L. Jackson plays the controversial high school basketball coach who benched his undefeated team due to their collective poor academic record in 1999.
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Mark Schwahn (written by) and
John Gatins (written by)
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Release Date:
14 January 2005 (USA) more
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It begins on the street. It ends here.
Plot:
Controversy surrounds high school basketball coach Ken Carter after he benches his entire team for their breaking their academic contract with him. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
3 wins & 14 nominations more
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Also Known As:
All Day Long (USA) (working title)
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Rated PG-13 for violence, sexual content, language, teen partying and some drug material.
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136 min
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The highest opening weekend of any release from an MTV Film: $24,182,961 (week of January 14-16, 2005). more
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): During the state game, Carter tells Cruz to go in for Kenyon. But, when the game starts, both Kenyon and Cruz are playing in the game. more
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References Jerry Maguire (1996) more
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Coach Carter was a good portrayal of a true story, 16 January 2005
Author: origbillygoat from United States

I really enjoyed the movie and was actually inspired by the end of the film. The film was a little corny and syrupy from time to time but it was an overall good, positive film. I have read and heard so many comments about the morals and unacceptable behavior portrayed by some of the characters and in turn viewers bad-mouth the film simply because they do not agree with some of the behavior of the some of the characters in the film. But these people obviously missed the point of the film. Coach Carter was trying to instill values that he thought would help an entire community. The reality is that kids do have foul mouths, have unprotected sex, are faced with hard decisions (to have or not have a baby and selling drugs) everyday.

We should all be so fortunate to have the opportunity to see a movie that features a person that actually tries to deal with these issues without making judgment calls and instead offer resolutions to problems. He offered resolutions to his team's behavior and left it to them to make the right decisions. This was good because they were able to see the consequences of their actions. When they made the right decision, they were able to see the positive consequences. When they made the wrong decision the players were faced with negative consequences and had no one to blame but themselves.

The impact of a person of this magnitude is profound and if some viewers found fault with this movie simply because their reality is a little different at this moment then it was for the characters in this film is very unfortunate for the viewer. Because you never know when you might be faced with a person similar to that in the movie. You just might have to deal with this situation more personally than expected and if this happens what will you do? Because the consequences of your actions in a situation like this will be either positive or negative as well.

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