Coach Carter (2005) Poster

(2005)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated PG-13 for violence, sexual content, language, teen partying and some drug material
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Female adults (acting as teenagers) can be seen in bathing suits at a pool party
  • Some male locker room scenes with men in underwear, towels and topless in the showers. No actual nudity for once.
  • Worm makes a joke about a girl being on top while he was on the bottom

Violence & Gore

  • A store window is shattered and the man inside the store is frightened.
  • A man spits on the window of another man's car, and the man gets out of his car and tries to confront the man who spat.
  • Several young men argue, one pushes another into a wall, and one pulls a gun. Two young men are mugged at gunpoint (it turns out to be a hoax).
  • A young man tries to hit a man who twists his arm behind him and shoves him against a wall.
  • Young men argue on the basketball court in several scenes; in one scene they shove and punch each other, the teams' respective benches empty and the skirmish continues.
  • Young men yell at and threaten each other in a few scenes, and a coach yells at team members in many scenes.
  • A man and a woman argue. Several people yell abusively at a man.
  • A woman talks about her son's death.
  • All the students are inspected as they enter the school with metal detectors and security guards at the entrance.
  • Young men are knocked down during basketball games.

Profanity

  • 1 vulgar phrase was uttered in Spanish ("Hijo de puta").
  • Several uses of 'bullshit,' and one 'goddamn' respectively.
  • Relatively frequent uses of "shit" and "bullshit".
  • The word "n*gg*r" is used (in a non-perjorative context) after which the person who said it is put in their place by Coach Carter
  • 1 obscene hand gesture
  • 3 sexual references
  • 26 scatological terms

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • The whole basketball team attends a party and several are drunk and many are making out with strangers.
  • A young man delivers money and picks up drugs to sell.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

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Sex & Nudity

  • A man and a woman about to have a abortion but are stopped.
  • Lots of kissing scenes
  • A pool scene where boys and girls in it kissing.
  • Lots of scenes of half naked men being shirtless and women in bathing suits
  • Talk of a lady of having a abortion.
  • There is a scene closer to the beginning of the movie where female character jokes about women's clothing.
  • In a persistent plot thread, one basketball player and his pregnant girlfriend and argue about how having a baby will effect their future. Later in the movie she has an abortion which he finds out about after the fact.

Violence & Gore

  • Timo's cousin is shot multiple times in the chest. he falls to the ground, and we see him lying on the ground with a blood-soaked shirt.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The scene where Renny is shot is intense and comes out of nowhere.

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