Sound familiar? Twenty years after the release of the Hollywood movie “Coach Carter” – a picture that told the story of the coach suspending his undefeated team because of poor academic ...

This inspiring sports drama tells the story of Coach Ken Carter, who takes charge of the struggling Oilers, a high school basketball team in the small town of Richmond. With discipline and dedication, ...

on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2024. Coach Ken Carter has returned to coach the team twenty years after the release of the Hollywood movie “Coach Carter.” (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group) It was the ...

Playing a coach based on the real Ken Carter in Coach Carter, he is as inspiring as ever. The real Carter (as shown in the movie) made the impossible decision to suspend his all-star basketball ...

Shaquille O’Neal and Anfernee “Penny” Hardaway were cast in this movie before they were teammates ... Jackson headlines Coach Carter as the title character, Ken Carter, who was both a ...

is not a word you often see screaming at you from movie posters. It is ... and-butter mode as a hard-ass high-school basketball coach who moulds his ramshackle team of ghetto toughs into a ...

In 1999, Ken Carter accepts the job of basketball coach for his old high school in a poor area of Richmond, CA. As much dismayed by the poor attitudes of his players as well as their dismal play ...

The real life counter parts of the 1999 Richmond basketball team that were portrayed in the 2005 film of the same name Discuss what there coach means to them ...

Traipsing down the same well worn path as the likes of Dead Poet's Society and Dangerous Minds, Coach Carter is a standard issue one-good-man-fights-the-odds movie. Rigidly adhering to the ...