Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3139 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-08-15
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Danish, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Turkish
• Dubbed in: German, Turkish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 131 minutes

Synopsis
In the tradition of LEAN ON ME and DANGEROUS MINDS comes COACH CARTER, an inspirational drama starring Samuel L. Jackson. Jackson portrays real-life figure Ken Carter, who graduated from California's Richmond High only to return there year later, in 1999, and take over as head coach of the boys' basketball team. Unfortunately, the troubled school he remembered as a teenager is an even more insufferable place in his adulthood. Determined to make a change in his players' lives, Carter makes each young man sign a contract that ensures he will maintain a 2.3 GPA, attend every class, and wear a jacket and tie on game day. Of course, the players reject the contract at first, but when they realize that they don't have any other choice, they give in. And when it appears that their tough-as-nails coach is actually turning them into winners on the court, they embrace their coach's philosophy even further. But when Coach Carter receives the incomprehensibly awful progress reports of his players, he does the unthinkable: he benches the entire team. Directed by Thomas Carter (SAVE THE LAST DANCE), COACH CARTER is a sensitive drama that features an impassioned performance by Jackson, as well as the impressive young cast (most notably Rob Brown, Rick Gonzalez, and Robert Ri'Chard).

Customer Reviews

Sports but not as we know it.
It seems today that all im reveiwing are sports films, but thats not all that my vast movie collection comprises of. How-ever as a medium to express hardship, underacheivement, cultural and physical differnces the sports genre tops it all. With great movies like Varsity blues, Remember the titans and the longest yard all taking on a gridiron american football type stance, COach carter acheives something different a basketball film!

But this isnt just basketball this film is phenominal in its story of hardship and a school system designed to fail. The film protrays one mans struggle to bring back glory to his old high school bball team, his undying love for his home town and the notion that in our youth the country will succeeed.

This film tackles the issues like the others listed in the begining but it also takes on something else, the modern gang culture, the class system and above all a thinking that we are all incontrol of our future no matter where we grow up or where we go to school we can acheive.

This film is a great pick me up film, it makes you appreciate what youve got and how hard you work for it and leaves you feeling warm inside.

Good movie with a strong message
Sporting drama based on a true story. Samuel L. Jackson plays Coach Carter, who takes on the job of coaching unruly inner city high school basketball team the Richmond Oilers, who only won four games in the whole of the previous season. By gaining their respect, teaching them the importance of discipline and instilling in them the values of teamwork and respect for authority, he crafts them into a team that becomes the best high school basketball team in the region, going through the whole of the season unbeaten. But when members of the team start slipping behind on their academic grades and classroom attendance, he suspends the whole team, causing a scandal that attracts local media attention. A film with a strong message about the importance of education and another excellent performance from Samuel L. Jackson as the Coach Carter of the title. The film also has good performances from the young men playing the members of the Richmond Oilers team and a favourable turn from R&B singer Ashanti as the pregnant girlfriend of one of the team's members. Although the film was a touch melodramatic at moments I still found this to be a film that interested and held my attention throughout, despite the fact that the film was almost two and a half hours long. A good movie.

brilliant
one of the best films i have had the pleasure to watch, the film has depth which might not usually be associated with a sporting story, the reason for this is simply although the film is of a sporting nature, more important issues are the focal point of the feature. Samuel l Jackson proves to be simply superb as does the supporting cast, a film for a wide range of people, i defy anyone who says they havent enjoyed this film