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Genres:
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Drama /
Sport
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Director:
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Thomas Carter
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Actors:
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Channing Tatum,
Antwon Tanner,
Denise Dowse,
Ashanti,
Nana Gbewonyo,
Sidney Faison,
Samuel L. Jackson,
Rob Brown,
Robert Ri'chard,
Rick Gonzalez,
Texas Battle,
Debbi Morgan,
Mel Winkler,
Vincent Laresca,
Octavia Spencer
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Duration:
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136 min.
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Rating:
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(7.1/10)119.5
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Plot Summary:
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This is the constant story of costly school basketball coach Ken Carter, who in 1999 benched his entire undefeated basketball team for poor grades. The opportunity gesture caused the band to relinquished two mid-season games, and drew both honour and contempt from principles officials and parents.
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Coach Carter
A story of wayward youth transformed by a pedagogical maverick, Coach Carter comprises another installment in the ongoing adventures of Superteacher, ghetto edition. Based on the story of an actual Richmond, Calif., high school basketball coach who benched his undefeated team until some of its members got their grades up, Coach Carter falls squarely in the group-Pygmalion tradition established by Sidney Poitier in To Sir, With Love and faithfully carried on by Morgan Freeman in Lean on Me, Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds, as well as countless others, in which a lone-educator-who-cares rides into the mean streets of town to battle complacent parents, craven bureaucrats, low expectations and moribund systems, and single-handedly save the school day.
As a tamer of ...
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