Coach Carter (Full Screen Edition)
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COACH CARTER tells the inspiring true story of controversial high school basketball coach Ken Carter (Jackson). Making headlines for his emphasis on the importance of academics over athletics, Carter requests all the members of the team to sign contracts, promising to maintain a certain grade point average. When the players fail to live up to this agreement, Carter benches the entire team, locking the gym and forfeiting games to prove his point. This infuriates the community who sees this as a hindrance to the future professional athletic careers of the players. Through hard work and dedication, Carter eventually gets his point across to his team and the community, going above and beyond to ensure a solid academic future for his team.
Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
MPAA rating : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
Product Dimensions : 7.75 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 3.2 ounces
Director : Thomas Carter
Media Format : Color, Dolby, Full Screen, Multiple Formats, NTSC
Run time : 2 hours and 16 minutes
Release date : June 21, 2005
Actors : Nana Gbewonyo, Rick Gonzalez, Rob Brown, Robert Ri’chard, Samuel L. Jackson
Subtitles: : English, Spanish
Language : English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Studio : Paramount
ASIN : B0008GNJZY
Writers : John Gatins, Mark Schwahn
Number of discs : 1
Best Sellers Rank: #36,367 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV) #329 in Sports (Movies & TV) #5,609 in Drama DVDs
Customer Reviews: 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 2,158 ratings var dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction; P.when(‘A’, ‘ready’).execute(function(A) { if (dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction !== true) { dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction = true; A.declarative( ‘acrLink-click-metrics’, ‘click’, { “allowLinkDefault”: true }, function (event) { if (window.ue) { ue.count(“acrLinkClickCount”, (ue.count(“acrLinkClickCount”) || 0) + 1); } } ); } }); P.when(‘A’, ‘cf’).execute(function(A) { A.declarative(‘acrStarsLink-click-metrics’, ‘click’, { “allowLinkDefault” : true }, function(event){ if(window.ue) { ue.count(“acrStarsLinkWithPopoverClickCount”, (ue.count(“acrStarsLinkWithPopoverClickCount”) || 0) + 1); } }); });
jamie D –
Great movie
One of my all time favorites
duane wilson –
Movie night
Incredible movie
Tearched H. Scott –
Winning on the court and in life…
I loved this movie all around. It was a feel good movie about overcoming adversity even though the deck was stacked against you. Samuel L. Jackson played a superb role of a strong black man raising his son in a not so forgiving neighborhood. He took on the father like role to the whole team who were dealing with issues of their own. One of the biggest things I loved was how he got them to see what they were capable of when he had one of the characters read the famous quote:”Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.’ – Marianne WilliamsonTwista Feat Faith Evans song “Hope” set the movie up to be a tear jerkier at the end. One of the best movie I have seen in years.
Dragonflyfuzz –
Great, Great Film
Every school administrator and school board should be required to watch this film and abide by its precepts. Including the collegiate level…Samuel L. Jackson does a tremendous, tremendous job in this.As a parent and teacher, and citizen, I have been screaming this message for decades!As Educators, what message are we sending these kids when we allow them to graduate high school without even being able to read??? But, they can darned sure throw a football.Look at the “heroes” now – many are nothing more than high-priced criminals.We glorify bad, deviant, and criminal behavior, and we have sold the soul of this country for a bloody buck.At least SOMEBODY, even if only in film, has the guts to make an UNCOMPROMISING, UN-RATIONALIZING, stand against it.I am so pleased to know that this story is based on actual events.That the kids, in the end, made their own right choice not to play in the tournament unless they got their academics in line.HALLELUJAH FOR THIS FILM!!
Matt Kratz –
Good movie/dvd
I enjoyed watching this movie about the coach who locked out his team when they didn’t live up to their terms in a contract. It was a great true story. Good dvd too.
Joseph Endres –
An inspirational basketball movie
I liked Samual Jackson in this movie. He is a very good actor who played the role in movie very well. It was a great inspirational story about basketball and life. If you like Samual Jackson then you will like the movie.
C –
great movie
great movie they dont make movie like this anymore
Virginia Bunton –
Great motivational movie with hope for our youth!!!
Really enjoyed this movie. Never give up and always look for the best in people, especially younger people seeking direction. Coach Carter and Samuel L. Jackson really hit the nail on the head in inspiring our young people to give their best and don’t always expect to be first but know that they were good enough to be first. Great inspirational movie. Couldn’t stop watching until all the way through! Do yourself a favor and watch it. You will also like Lean On Me and Freedom Writers, all with the same type of scenarios.
Alexander Prüfert –
Schöne Story
Mytika –
ON M’A BEAUCOUP PARLE DE CE FILM DEPUIS DES ANNEES ET JE NE L’AVAIS PAS ENCORE VU. MAINTENANT JE COMPRENDS POURQUOI CERTAINS DE MES PROCHES ME SURNOMMAIS “COACH CARTER” ETANT MOI MEME ENTRAINEUR DE BASKET. APRES AVOIR VU CE FILM J’AI JUSTE EU ENVIE DE LEUR PASSER UN SAVON….LOL. CETTE HISTOIRE VRAIE EST MAGNIFIQUE ET C’EST UN TRES BON FILM DE BASKET. LE COMBAT DE CE COACH POUR L’AVENIR DE SES JOUEURS EST TRES COURAGEUX SANS COMPTER LA PRISE DE CONSCIENCE DE CES JEUNES QU’ILS NE SONT PAS FORCEMENT VOUER A L’ECHEC…. MOI JE DIS JUSTE BRAVO! CE FILM EST A VOIR ABSOLUMENT ET LES BONUS AUSSI…. JE N’EN DIS PAS PLUS C’EST A VOUS DE DECOUVRIR!
Juanlu –
El idioma de Español es latino pero por lo demás está genial. Muy buena pelicula con gran motivación. Muy bien.
Elena A. –
Bellissimo!!! Se pensiamo che è anche una storia vera…Da vedere. Molto bella anche l’intervista ai protagonisti veri ed agli attori. Carter è una persona eccezionale!!!
Gerald Parker –
This motion picture has a great, big, wonderful heart! Lots of grit, too. Coach Carter, whose real life story and those of his players the film recounts, has a vision (and the fortitude to carry it out), of high school basketball that does not sacrifice, in the name of high sports achievement, the academic grades, college/university aspirations, and better lives in adulthood for which his young player players also should be striving after high school is over.Those were realistic goals and reasonable hopes back in 2005, when this film was released. Since then, due to the ongoing (as of 2014 as I write this) collapse of the U.S. economy that set in during 2007-2008, largely due to years of off-shoring American jobs (industrial, office, technical, and much professional work alike) and to the collusion of the cynical financiers of Wall Street and the corrupt U.S. government, such hopes have waned and higher education seems mostly nowadays to leave the young with crushing student debt to pay off without the job prospects that once had been there for graduates to seize hold of. However, this film also, from the educational standpoint, is about staying through high school to graduation with decent marks, and that, at least, would help to prepare American workers for so many of the more menial jobs that are left in the wrecked U.S. economy after the devastations that “Free Trade” policies have inflicted upon the labour market and, also, of the further financial ruin that has set in from 2008 onwards.However, how it was in 2005 is, in so many essential ways, what the world really should be like and what the promise that civilised life, indeed, should hold! In the film, all of the sportsmen, the coach and his young basketball team members alike, who are struggling to live out Coach Carter’s work ethic, are in and of Richmond, a “disadvantaged town of mixed black, chicano, and some white population, in Northern California’s Bay (Greater San Francisco) area, rather like the Southeast Los Angeles (Bell, Southgate, Watts) area of part of my own childhood, further south in the same state.The music is excellent, too, hot and energetic, as the kids like it, expertly crafted and delivered. Perhaps best of all, for those who love sport, at any rate, is the intense and skillful basketball playing seen. This movie simply has it all!