Coach Carter
A high-school basketball coach ties participation to academic and behavioral commitments, making rules, authority and collective responsibility the core conflict.
- YEAR
- 2005
- DIRECTOR
- Thomas Carter
- COUNTRY
- United States
- LENGTH
- 136 min
- SPORT / THEME
- Basketball · Fiction
- CAST / FEATURED PEOPLE
- Samuel L. Jackson · Rob Brown · Channing Tatum
Coach Carter in the wider sports-film conversation
Coach Carter is worth viewing not only as a self-contained story but as part of a wider conversation about how sport is represented on screen. Coach Carter sits in the line of school-sports dramas where the locker room is a civic and institutional space, not just a pause between games.
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Synopsis
A high-school basketball coach ties participation to academic and behavioral commitments, making rules, authority and collective responsibility the core conflict.
Place in film history
Coach Carter sits in the line of school-sports dramas where the locker room is a civic and institutional space, not just a pause between games.