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Article: `Coach Carter'.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- January 11, 2005
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Byline: Roger Moore
Samuel L. Jackson likes to dress sharp, likes to look tough, and loves to preach. He may have found his perfect role in "Coach Carter," the true story of a sharp-dressing, uncompromising high school basketball coach who earned notoriety for standing up for academics in sports-obsessed America.
It's more "Lean on Me" than "Friday Night Lights," or rather it should be. There's an awful lot of formula on-the-court action before the movie gets to its point _ the sermon.
But where "Friday Night Lights" laid out the symptoms of a culture with its values out of whack, "Coach Carter" offers a cure. Tough love. No grades, no play. ...