Movie@america: Coach Carter

Join us for a screening of Coach Carter (2005), the gripping true story of how one coach’s tough love and unwavering discipline turned an underperforming high school basketball team into champions! Movie Synopsis: 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 getting 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.