A great basketball-movie that makes you feel fortunate

Rating: 9/10 (12 April 2005)

This movie is about a basketball coach (jackson) who uses unconventional methods to get the students he coaches to be academic winners as well as winners on the court. Of course everybody turns on him at first, but it all works out in the end. I thought this was a great movie, mainly because Samuel L. Jackson is a great actor and really makes Ken Carter come alive. it is sometimes a bit too moralizing here and there, but it's a good change from all that brainless violence you usually see in theaters!As the story is based on a true story i think the real Coach Carter must have been a good man, devoting his time saving his students from the terrible things that can happen to you groing up in a neighborhood these kids grew up in.