Coach Carter

Coach Carter (2005)

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Top basketball coach, Ken Carter, gets sent to a school full of kids destined fo rthe ghetto. Through basketbal he aims to teach the troublesome youths lessons of life. His attempts are met with dicontent by the top players but they eventually warm to the new style and start winning. But not before causing contoversy by benching the winning squad. Carter finds that his methods have more effect than he knows.

Continuity mistake: When Kenyon talks to Kyra inside the restaurant, the straw in the drink on the table changes position several times, without anyone moving it.

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Coach Ken Carter: When we step on the floor every second that clock is ticking, we are pedal to the metal, we run the ball, we pressure the ball, and most importantly we control the tempo of the game, we make them play Richmond Oiler ball.

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Question: Is any of the sub-plot with Timo Cruz and his friend (relative?) getting shot true?

Answer: I take it that you are asking if in real life was Timo Cruz's cousin shot. The answer would be no because Timo Cruz is not a real person. While the film is (loosely) based on a true story, none of the players in the film (with the exception of Damien, Coach Carter's son) were real life students of Carter. The characters in the film were all composites of real life players. That being said, I don't know if there was a player on the team that had a cousin shot, certainly nothing prominent about it is reported. It's highly unlikely though as many of Carter's real life players dispute the negative portrayal of the personalities of the players and say the characters were falsely portrayed (along with facts like game scores and records). Darryl Robinson is quoted as saying "Hollywood missed it by a country mile. The kids buying drugs and shooting people, that never happened. The kids were a good group to begin with, there were no troublemakers, there was none of that."

Bishop73

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