Coach Carter

The true-life story of a coach who tries to teach his players that there's more to life than basketball is brought to the screen in this sports drama. Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson) was once a star player on the Richmond High School basketball team in Richmond, CA, and years later, after ...more

Like Hoosiers about 20 years before it, Coach Carter is a well-done feel-good film mixing athletics with high school drama -- well, about as feel-good as any film with a fair amount of profanity and gang violence can be. It's another scenario where the underdogs are whipped into shape with tough love by an idealistic coach. Of course, it's about half a century after the time at which Hoosiers took place, and Coach Carter is in many respects a different ball game. The arena isn't whitebread rural ...more