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Annotated Bibliography Stanislas Laurin "CinemaDave - "Coach Carter" - Important Themes, but Missed Shots." CinemaDave - "Coach Carter" - Important Themes, but Missed Shots. N.p., 26 Jan. 2005. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.  CinemaDave’s review brings up a lot of good points about the movie Coach Carter. He explains how student athletes are given special treatment from the first day they show athletic talent. He describes this treatment as a sickness that only plagues the student athletes throughout their high school careers. Since they have most of their stuff given to them because of their talent they don’t understand how the school system truly works. He explains that in Coach Carter the coach refuses to let his kids play because they didn’t meet their expectations in their contracts. The community freaks out because the team was undefeated and the coach makes them forfeit games because of their grades. CinemaDave explains that this was the student athletes first reality check since they had never been told they can’t play ball because of their behavior in school.

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 * Kazarian, Arno. "Coach Carter." //Imdb.com. n.d. Web. 17 Nov. 2013.//**

Ken Carter is a business man turned basketball coach. He returns to Richmond High School which is where he went to school to coach. Coach Carter is played by Samuel L. Jackson who is a very talented actor. in the Film Carter does some things many others do not like while he is the coach, he is a student first athlete second kind of coach and many in Richmond do not like that. Coach Carter makes national news for putting a lock on the gymnasium until his team increases their grades, all this while the Richmond Oilers are undefeated. There are many problems with his players, from slinging drugs on the street to their fathers being in jail. One specific character Timo played by Rick Gonzalez spends half his time playing ball and the other half selling drugs. You see this on many movies and there is nothing original with what he is doing. Coach Carter tries to bring them all together but the film lacks dynamics between him and his players. His family doesn't accurately represent the real Ken Carter and his accomplishments. The film sets out to make Coach Carter look like he is all work and no fun.

Papamichael, Stella. "Coach Carter DVD (2005)." //bbc.co.uk.// n.d. Web. 17 Nov.2013.

Coach Carter is a True-Life tale about a Coach who wanted to install Self-discipline in a school that lacked it. Directed by Thomas Carter (no relation) and was one of his better films. The focus is on the real Ken Carter who was the one who brought the team back to being a power house and made the team maintain a higher standard than they did before. Ken Carter was a hard nose coach and taught by discipline, this quote by an Ex-Player shows just that “He was just mean!" The Cast of the movie needed a trainer to do some of the drill that the real Coach Carter but the team through. This trainer was said to be hard on them in order to make the film look more real than other sports films. The conflict between Damien (Ken Carter's son) and his dad brought drama to the film. Carter wouldn't let his son transfer to play with him at first but then when he decided he would let him he made him maintain a 3.7 GPA while the rest of the team needed only a 2.3. There are many things going on with the characters outside of basketball that brings drama to the film, for example one kid has a kid on the way and it shows the struggles he is going through.