Coach Carter

2005

Action / Biography / Drama / Sport

93
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 85% · 146 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 85% · 250K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 189678 189.7K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Thomas Carter Photo
Thomas Carter

Top cast

Samuel L. Jackson Photo
Samuel L. Jackson as Coach Ken Carter
Vincent Laresca Photo
Vincent Laresca as Renny
Mel Winkler Photo
Mel Winkler as Coach White
Marty Dew Photo
Marty Dew as Dancer
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
745.10 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 16 min
Seeds 59
2.51 GB
1920*804
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 16 min
Seeds 100

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by bob-rutzel 8 / 10

Terrific

Ken Carter (Jackson) takes over a losing California high school basketball team and employs extreme measures to turn things around.Yes, we have seen this before: a hard-assed coach molds his players into the image he desires for them. Yes, Samuel L. Jackson pontificates a lot in here. But all coaches pontificate to a large degree and it is justified. And, yes, it is a little too long, but so what? The basketball scenes are truly something to behold. The acting all around is excellent. And, yes, this is a terrific movie.Okay, now for the down side. Why does Carter wait until the team is 9-0 to find out his players are not living up the contract they signed with him? The players are falling behind academically and Carter locks them out of the gym until they turn things around. But, waiting until 9-0 doesn't seem to have bothered anyone. Something doesn't seem right here, but no one has questioned this aspect. Even Carter doesn't say he should have looked harder sooner. Why not? Now, in real life Carter owned a sports store. That is probably the reason I kept seeing different uniforms for just about every different game. When some basketball game scenes opened I had to wait until Carter calls the team over to the bench to see what players were his team, and then I knew what color jerseys his team had on. Before that, the action was so fast and furious I couldn't really tell. It's not like the players' faces were widely recognizable to viewers.This is must see movie.
Reviewed by killbill_tarantino2003 8 / 10

Great Plot,Cast,Director.Exceptional Drama.With Non-Hollywood Ending...

Sport obviously not the special themes for movies."Jerry Maguire","The Replacements","Any Given Sunday",etc.Hollywood already made it in like 1000 years ago.And mostly had great success in Box-Office and also great story.This year,Coach Carter prove it again.This movie was a representative for great Sport-movie in 2005!Coach Carter showed up and challenge this summer with Lots of wonderful and amazing things.Samuel.L.Jackson undoubtful again was the most stunning,excellent and superb actor of all time.He just could make it!Supporting by lots of great and amazing newcomers like Antwon Tanner or Channing Tatum.Maybe there was also the biggest mistake Ashanti joined this movie.However and Whatever it is,This Movie(plus the Promising Director:Thomas Carter!)was The Best!Loved it!Liked it!Two-Thumbs Up and crowds of applause for Coach Carter!
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