A movie about commitment, confidence and aspirations!

Rating: 10/10 (7 February 2005)

The reason I adored Coach Carter is because it is about telling yourself that you can accomplish more than you actually think you can. It whetted my enthusiasm and made me question my confidence and if I could really manage to go beyond my limits of achievement that I previously never thought of transcending.
MIGHT CONTAIN SPOILERS******** The movie is about how a single man's audacious boldness and aplomb and commitment and humane intentions can contribute to uprooting wrong ideas and instilling new ones. POSSIBLE SPOILER****The newly hired basketball coach, Ken Carter, wants that jocks excel not only athletically but academically as well. He wants to change the ages-old way of educating youngsters whose primary interest is other than academic realm. And his mindset and his peculiar way of trying to accomplish his goal are radically opposed by the predominantly low-class community. Carter is an open-minded man. He's caring, willing to take risks, he behaves himself and is well-accepted at first. But at his workplace his strictness, his rigid set of rules and the severity of his punishments are simply incomprehensible to the community's level of understanding. And this is the point when the jarring effect of misunderstandings and objection leads to condemnation, attack, trial and finally closes up with regret and submission to the Carter's rules. He wanted smart kids and smart athletes. And he got them only when the parents and adults questioned their own selves if they wanted to live with smart kids & athletes and be proud of them or be surrounded by rascals and delinquents who could only help the rate of crime rise and jeopardize their own lives. The movie is very enjoyable, educative and witty so it deserves 10 out of 10.