Coach Carter movie

Samuel L. Jackson plays the controversial high school basketball coach who benched his undefeated team due to their collective poor academic record in 1999.

Coach Carter is a 2005 film, directed by Thomas Carter. It is based on a true story, in which Richmond High School (Richmond, California, USA) head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.Tagline: It begins on the streets. It ends here.PlotAt the start of the movie, Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson) takes a part-time, low-paid ($1500 for the whole basketball season) job coaching the basketball team at his old high school, an inner-city public school in Richmond, California.

At first, the boys are unruly and disrespectful. They also lost 22 games and only had 4 wins in the previous season.Coach Carter sets strict new rules for the team ? they must maintain a 2.3 grade point average (C+), they must attend classes and sit in the front row, and they must wear jackets and ties on game days. One of the boys, Timo Cruz (Rick Gonzalez), walks out of practice on the first day after an altercation with Carter. We later see Cruz hanging with his older, drug-dealing cousin.Under Carters leadership, the team starts winning games. Carters son, Damien, a good student who attends the private school St. Francis and plays basketball there, quits the private school (against his dads wishes) and transfers to Richmond High School to play basketball on his dads team.Another player, Kenyon (Rob Brown), has a pregnant girlfriend, Kyra (Ashanti) who has given up on her plans for college in favor of having the baby, even though she sees first-hand how well that has gone for her cousin.Cruz goes back and forth between dealing drugs and playing on the team, even though he has to fight his way back on the team.

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Coach Carter Cast

• Antwon Tanner
• Ashanti
• Channing Tatum popular
• Debbi Morgan
• Denise Dowse
• Mel Winkler
• Nana Gbewonyo
• Octavia Spencer
• Rick Gonzalez
• Rob Brown
• Robert Ri'chard
• Sidney Faison
• Texas Battle
• Vincent Laresca