Coach Carter

Coach Carter (2005)

6 corrected entries

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Corrected entry: Though the movie is set in 1999, when the newspaper with the headline "Richmond beats Kennedy for 4th consecutive win", the printed date is November 9, 2004.

Correction: It's nowhere said that the story takes place in 1999 - the real story did, the one in the movie not (e.g. Carter became coach in 1997). It's just an abstract of his story as coach and as stated at the beginning of the movie "Inspired by the life of Ken Carter".

Bjoern_Buller

Corrected entry: The Black Eyed Peas song "Shut Up" is playing when the team comes into the party. The movie is based on a true story that took place in 1999, and this song wasn't made until 2003.

Correction: It's nowhere said that the story takes place in 1999 - the real story did, the one in the movie not (e.g. Carter became coach in 1997). It's just an abstract of his story as coach and as stated at the beginning of the movie "Inspired by the life of Ken Carter".

Bjoern_Buller

Corrected entry: "Get Low", the song being played at the school dance, didn't exist until three years after the movie is set.

Correction: It's nowhere said that the story takes place in 1999 - the real story did but the movie isn't necessarily set in the same year (e.g. Carter became coach in 1997). It's just an abstract of his story as coach and as stated at the beginning of the movie "Inspired by the life of Ken Carter".

Bjoern_Buller

Corrected entry: Someone at the dance is wearing an Indiana Pacers jersey with Ron Artest's name on the back. Artest did not play for the Pacers until 2001.

Correction: It's nowhere said that the story takes place in 1999 - the real story did, the one in the movie not (e.g. Carter became coach in 1997). It's just an abstract of his story as coach.

Bjoern_Buller

Corrected entry: At the start of the movie, Ty Crane wonders how it feels to be "the next LeBron James". At the time, the future Cleveland Cavaliers star was an anonymous middle schooler living in a small town in Ohio, and there's no way a Californian high schooler would call himself "the next LeBron James".

Correction: It's nowhere said that the story takes place in 1999 - the real story did, the one in the movie not (e.g. Carter became coach in 1997). It's just an abstract of his story as coach and as stated at the beginning of the movie "Inspired by the life of Ken Carter".

Bjoern_Buller

Corrected entry: When they face Bayhill, a timeout is called with 1:20 left to play, yet the clock is later restarted at 1:22.

Correction: This actually DOES happen. If the refs thinks that the reaction to the timeout took too long, they will add time back on the clock to compensate for their sloth.

Continuity mistake: Near the end of the film in the final game Ken Carter calls a time out. The clock stops on 36 seconds and after the time out it restarts again on 38 seconds.

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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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