Coach Carter Movie Review Essay

Coach Carter is a 2005 drama film released by Paramount Pictures, and directed by Thomas Carter. This movie is based on a true story in when Richmond High School (California, USA) head basketball coach Ken Carter becomes famous in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results at the beginning of the movie Coach Carter (Samuel L. Jackson) takes a part-time low-paid job coaching the basketball team, at his old high school Richmond California. At the start the boys not very well educated and in a rebellion path are unruthly and disrespectful. The team lost almost all of their games the last season. When Carter arrives he sets strict rules for them they had to maintain a 2.3 grade point average (C+) they have to attend classes and sit in the front row they have to wear jackets

He cancels basketball practices and makes the team spend the practice time in the library, being tutored by some of their teachers.This leads to a conflict with the parents and the school board; the board votes 4-2 to end the lockout Carter is about to quit but when he arrives at the gym to pack up his stuff he finds the boys sitting at school desks with their teachers tutoring them there. Heartened by it all, Carter decides to stay.Cruz has gone back to working for his drug dealing cousin. One night his cousin is gunned down on the street just in front of him. Fortunately Cruz ends up at Carter 's house that night Carter brings him into his house, lets him back on the team and pretty much saves him from a future as his cousin 's.Kenyon gets a full scholarship to college he goes to his girlfriend and tells her the college even wants to help them, as married students with a baby. She tells him that she chose to abort the pregnancy they do get back together though the big climactic game takes place at the state tournament against St. Francis the team is disappointed by the loss but