
Coach Carter (2005)
Release Date: January 14, 2005
Director: Thomas Carter
Writer(s): Mark Schwahn, John Gatins
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Rick Gonzalez, Robert Ri'chard
Estimated budget: $30 million
U.S. Box office: $67,264,877
Foreign: $9,404,929
Worldwide: $76,669,806
In 1999, Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson) returns to his old high school in Richmond, California, to get the basketball team into shape. With tough rules and academic discipline, he succeeds in setting the players on a winning streak. But when their grades start to suffer, Carter locks them out of the gym and shuts down their championship season. When he is criticized by the players and their parents, he sticks to his guns, determined that they excel in class as well as on the court.