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Coach Carter
Directed by
Thomas Carter
2005
2h 16m
PG-13
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Controversy surrounds high school basketball coach Ken Carter after he benches his entire team for breaking their academic contract with him.
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Cast of Coach Carter
Samuel L. Jackson
Ken Carter
Rob Brown
Kenyon Stone
Robert Ri'chard
Damien Carter
Rick Gonzalez
Timo Cruz
Nana Gbewonyo
Junior Battle
Antwon Tanner
Worm
Channing Tatum
Jason Lyle
Ashanti
Kyra
Texas Battle
Maddux
Lacey Beeman
Susan
Octavia Spencer
Mrs. Battle
Allison Kyler
Dancer
Cindy Chiu
Bay Hill Cheerleader
Adrienne Bailon-Houghton
Dominique
Dana Davis
Peyton
Sonya Eddy
Worm's Mother
Debbi Morgan
Tonya
Mel Winkler
Coach White
Paul Rae
Guardian
Ray Baker
St. Francis Coach
Roger Lim
Benson Chiu (uncredited)
Vincent Laresca
Renny
Sidney Faison
Ty Crane
Marc McClure
Susan's Dad
Jenny Gago
President Martinez
Ben Weber
Mr. Gesek
Floyd Levine
Taxi Driver
Robert Hoffman
Dancer
Denise Dowse
Principal Garrison
Coach Carter Reviews
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Carter gives every sports-drama cliche a chance to play. No bad idea is benched.
Orlando Sentinel
Roger Moore
Jackson plays the coach with wit and authority. His imposing presence ensures that he won't have to take much guff, even from the toughest punk on the team.
Seattle Times
Erik Lundegaard
Must decency be dull?
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
Features bursts of humor and electrifying energy offset by speechifying and a dud of a subplot.
Newark Star-Ledger
Lisa Rose
The movie may consist of formulaic elements, but it excels on the strength of its cast and the sincerity of its message.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
Much of it is far too shallow, of course, and Carter films it like a music video unfortunately diluting some of the power inherent in both the performances and the message.
Boxoffice Magazine
Tim Cogshell
Utterly intolerable with its indulgence in inner-city stereotypes, overt preaching and simple antidotes.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Engaging film with a terrific message.
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
Writers Mark Schwahn and John Gatins have a teen-movie pedigree, and they've kludged the film's true-life material into a conventional three-act shape instead of reimagining it as cinematic.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
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.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
Samuel L. Jackson shouts, yells, bellows, and screams his way through the fact-inspired film
New York Magazine/Vulture
Ken Tucker
Saved by bursts of energy and inventiveness.
Village Voice
David Blaylock
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.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
One of those highly effective conventional pictures that remind us that conventionality isn't always a bad thing.
Washington Post
Sean Daly
The basketball footage is often thrilling, the camera whooshing through the action like a darting point guard.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
By the time you leave, Jackson will have you believing that his Coach Carter is a true original.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
In this film, basketball is not a metaphor; it's a hard-played game that requires skill, conditioning, intelligence and effective teamwork.
New York Post
Debra Birnbaum
The inspirational tale becomes just another by-the-numbers, clich-ridden sports film.
Houston Chronicle
Amy Biancolli
The kind of boot-strap-pulling, tear-duct-tickling, I-am-Spartacus-crowing movie-on-a-mission that might rankle more cynical movie goers but sets hearts aflutter for most everyone else.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It's not only a sports movie with the usual big games and important shots, but also a coach movie, with inspiring locker room speeches and difficult moral decisions.
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