Coach Carter

Coach Carter - 3 Stars (Good)

Samuel L. Jackson plays Coach Ken Carter in a good sports drama with an outstanding message for today's great players of basketball school who see the pros play with their only goal in life.

Coach Carter, a sporting goods store owner success and an outstanding athlete in his time, returned to his alma mater, which is located in a poor area of Richmond (CA). He inherits a team with players who have a bad attitude, poor performance and virtually no expectations for their future if they fail to further their basketball career.

The team at Richmond High School is designed to have its student athletes fail by not requiring high expectations, discipline and responsibility. Coach Carter is the centerpiece of this film on values based on a true story of a team from California.

He immediately establishes the law, Carter style, demanding discipline, hard work and responsibility. Carter and his players sign a written contract that requires standards of conduct, dress code and good grades to stay eligible to play.

Carter believes that scholarship and ethics should go hand in hand with a game of basketball in abeyance.

Given certain standards to be met, the players take a 180 degree turn and start to win from the beginning of the season, going undefeated through several games. Then the community begins to shower with attention and praise and the players are confident and ignore their presence in class and studies.

Carter discovers that several of his players are almost missing and taking quick action, benching his team and stop the basketball program until the players toe the mark in their studies. You can imagine the reaction of parents and the community.

Coach Carter finds himself under immense pressure to give his players a pass. It is probably the only basketball coach in America to stand firm with an unbeaten team. He refuses to yield, forcing his players to be accountable for their performance both on and off the field.

It's an incredible story of a coach who does not compromise its values without compromising its integrity. Coach Carter has the courage and audacity to stand fast and wills right to the end.

Listen to what Coach Carter has to say to his audience of the committee: "You really need to consider the message you send these boys by ending the lockout. It's the same message that we, a culture send to our professional athletes, and that is that they are above the law.

"If these boys can not honor the simple rules of a basketball contract, how long do you think it will be before they are here breaking the law?

"I played ball here at Richmond High 30 years ago. It was the same thing when some of my teammates went to prison, some of them even ended up dying. If you vote to end the lockout, you will not stop me, I'll stop. "

Powerful? You'd better believe it. Ignore violence, sex, poor language, partying teenage drug and in this film, it is just so clumsy Hollywood stereotypes of players high school basketball.

There is too little recognition in movies for basketball players who are prepared not only remarkable collegiate and professional opportunities for students but also excellent with lots of character and values.

However, there are players like Coach Carter inherited, and this film illustrates an important statement and necessary on what really matters. Coach Carter is not interested in winning games to advance his career, he is totally focused on young men trusting, productive and well-adjusted adults.

Thankf.