Starring: - Samuel L. Jackson
- Robert Ri'chard
- Ashanti
Description:
Based on the true story of Coach Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson) and high school basketball team the Richmond Oilers, Coach Carter centers on a reluctant coach as he takes the job as the team’s skipper. Coach Carter, alongside his freshman, ex-prep school son (Robert Ri’chard), slowly begins to turn the team from inner city losers into student athletes. Key word: student. Carter’s rigorous workout routine not only stretches the boundaries of the human body but also the mind. When the team and their parents cause a stir concerning how grades aren’t as important as a little “hoops”, Carter locks down the gym, canceling practices and games in an attempt to make the Oilers winners both on and off the court.
Director Thomas Carter, no relation, is at the helm for this basketball movie. His last flick for MTV films was the 2001 hit Save the Last Dance. That chick flick about the ghetto ballerina set to fulfill her dream parallels some of Coach Carter. In both films, the characters want out of their urban prisons and escape after some rising and falling to all the highs and lows of life in the ‘hood. Thomas Carter’s work here, specifically in the basketball scenes, is somewhat good... there’s a lot of potential here…but when the script dives into those juicy character scenes the film drags. Some more time in the editing room might solve this problem. The movie clocked in a little over two hours, trim the fat and Coach Carter could go from being plain good to very good.
1. All Night Long - Red Cafe
2. No Need For Conversation - Fabolous/Mike Shorey
3. Professional - Chingy/G.I.B.
4. Southside - The Game/Lil Scrappy
5. Roll Wit You - Ciara
6. Wouldn't You Like To Ride - Kanye West/Common/JV/Malik Yusef
7. Hope - Twista/Faith Evans
8. Your Love (Is The Greatest Drug I've Ever Known) - Van Hunt
9. This One - Ak'sent
10. Beauty Queen - Czarnok
11. Balla - Mack 10/Da Hood
12. Time - St. Lunatics
13. What Love Can Do - Letoya
14. About Da Game - Trey Songz
Coach Carter
