Coach Carter (Widescreen Edition)
COACH CARTER tells the inspiring right tale of controversial high school basketball coach Ken Carter (Jackson). Making headlines for his emphasis on the substance of academics over athletics, Carter supplies 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 verify his point. This infuriates the community who sees this as a hindrance to the future certified athletic careers of the players. Through hard work and keenness, 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.Based on a right tale of the man who locked his boys out of the gym until they all ears on their schoolwork, this by-the-numbers crowd-pleaser holds collectively because a steely Samuel L. Jackson refuses to notice the parade of clichés he’s trumpeting (the dialogue sticks to platitudes like, “Success in here is the key to success out there”). Coach Ken Carter (Jackson) takes over an unruly team of Richmond, California basketball players and teaches them how to play–and behave–like champions. His plight, which pits him against an uncooperative school board and parents who’ve agreed up hope, holds some interest, but the film is too concerned with giving us a Huge Game every twenty summary or so. The teens all have the spark of life in them (including pop star Ashanti, who features in a surprisingly well-handled teen pregnancy subplot), even if the film’s plodding familiarity means it’s never really rousing, adding up to simply a excellent-natured amalgam of Stand and Give up, Hoosiers, Perilous Minds, and even Dead Poet’s Society (one of the tougher players really recites some inspirational poetry).–Steve Wiecking
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