History Film / CoachCarter

---> '''Principal:''' Your intentions are good, Mr. Carter, but your methods are a bit extreme. (locking the gym until every player gets at least a 2.3 GPA)
---> '''Carter:''' You painted an extreme picture.
---> '''Principal:''' No one expects them to graduate, no one expects them to go to college. So you take away basketball. The one area of their lives where they have some success.
---> '''Carter:''' [[BluntYes Yes ma'am.]]
---> '''Principal:''' And you challenge them academically?
---> '''Carter:''' Yes ma'am.
---> '''Principal:''' And what if they fail?
---> '''Carter:''' Then ''we've'' [[{{Subversion}} failed]].
---> '''Principal:''' Unfortunately, Mr. Carter, both you and I know that for some of these kids, this basketball season will be the highlight of their lives.
---> '''Carter:''' [[DoubleSubversion Well, I think that's the problem. Don't you?]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: the team loses the last game, but the solidarity that they gained means more than winning. In addition, many of the team members went on to college and had successful lives.]]

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: When Coach Carter berates the team for losing control at a party, one of them asks him that they won the game so what else did he want from them, which makes him realize that they were not understanding the values he was trying to teach them alongside the plays.

* ArtisticLicense: Several instances [[http://truesportsmovies.com/basketball/coach-ken-carter-richmond-oilers/ mentioned here]]. But one popular example is Coach Carter being portrayed as having earned a basketball scholarship to Division I school George Mason University. In real life, Carter didn't attend George Mason. He attended George ''Fox'' University, a Division III school in Oregon.

* SaveOurStudents

* ''Film/CoachCarter'' challenges his inner city basket ball team to overcome the DumbJock stereotype by closing the gym and cancelling games until they improve their grades. Later he calls out both his players for failing to educate themselves, and the Principal for perpetuating their situation believing they can't do any better.

* StopBeingStereotypical: Coach Carter challenges his team to overcome the DumbJock stereotype. As well as calling out the principal for perpetuating it by disregarding the team's education due to her belief that they cannot do any better.

---> '''Carter:''' [[{{Subversion}} Then ''we've'' failed]].

* OnlySaneMan: Damien. [[spoiler:Except when his teammates get him drunk at the Bay Hill girl's party.]]

* TokenMinority: In this film, it's actually a white character on the basketball team, Jason, played by Channing Tatum. One of the team's reserves is Asian, but he doesn't get any lines.

* TokenMinority: In this film, it's actually a white character on the basketball team, Jason, played by Channing Tatum.

* NWordPrivileges: Deconstructed by Coach Carter in a rather eloquent speech.

* AdvertisedExtra: Commercials prior to the film be released hyped up {{Ashanti}} as being one of the lead actors. She ended up being a really minor character.

---> '''Principal:''' Your intentions are good, Mr. Carter, but your methods are a bit extreme. (locking the gym until every player gets at least a 2.8 GPA)

* TrainingFromHell: Carter sure put the team through the grinder. Even the slightest infraction was punishable by several pushups and suicides.

* TrainingFromHell

* AdvertiseExtra: Commercials prior to the film be released hyped up {{Ashanti}} as being one of the lead actors. She ended up being a really minor character.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Film/TheAvengers Nick Fury had to start somewhere before he could recruit a team of superheroes and become the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.]]
** Who knew [[Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra Duke]] could hoop it up?