Coach Carter
Controversy surrounds high school basketball coach Ken Carter after he benches his entire team for breaking their academic contract with him.
7 January 1962, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
21 February 1958, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
5 November 1982, State College, Pennsylvania, USA
20 September 1956, Dunn, North Carolina, USA
22 February 1962, New York City, New York, USA
4 October 1978, Davenport, Iowa, USA
22 March 1952, Queens, New York, USA
20 September 1983, Houston, Texas, USA
16 February 1974, Harvard, Massachusetts, USA
July 7, 1976 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA
13 October 1980, Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, USA
31 March 1957, San Mateo, California, USA
24 November 1973, Carol Stream, Illinois, USA
February 8, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
12 August 1984, Oxnard, California, USA
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.
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.
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.
December 22, 2010
Engaging film with a terrific message.
July 05, 2005
Saved by bursts of energy and inventiveness.
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.
January 27, 2005
Carter gives every sports-drama cliche a chance to play. No bad idea is benched.
October 06, 2006
Samuel L. Jackson shouts, yells, bellows, and screams his way through the fact-inspired film
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.
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.
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.
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.
