Search results for "Thomas Carter"

Coach Carter (2005) RT 65% / Audience 85%

DVD release: Jun 2005

Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results. (more)

GENRES: Drama

DIRECTION: Thomas Carter

CAST: Samuel L. Jackson • Rob Brown • Robert Ri'chard • Rick Gonzalez

Metro (1997) RT 15% / Audience 27%

DVD release: Aug 2001

Roper, a hostage negotiator catches a murderous bank robber after a blown heist. The bank robber escapes and immediately goes after the man who put him behind bars. (more)

GENRES: Action • Adventure • Comedy • Crime • Thriller

DIRECTION: Thomas Carter

CAST: Eddie Murphy • Kim Miyori • Art Evans • James Carpenter

Save the Last Dance (2001) RT 53% / Audience 59%

DVD release: Jun 2001

A white midwestern girl moves to Chicago, where her new boyfriend is a black teen from the South Side with a rough, semi-criminal past. (more)

GENRES: Drama • Family • Music • Romance

DIRECTION: Thomas Carter

CAST: Julia Stiles • Sean Patrick Thomas • Kerry Washington • Fredro Starr

Swing Kids (1993) RT 38% / Audience 79%

DVD release: Sep 2002

The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun leads to more difficult choices as the Nazi's ... (more)

GENRES: Drama • Music

DIRECTION: Thomas Carter

CAST: Robert Sean Leonard • Christian Bale • Frank Whaley • Barbara Hershey

Under The Influence (1986)

A hard-drinking family man has been successful in his business despite his alcoholism. His daughter, a professional, struggles to meet her father's high expectations while she ... (more)

GENRES: Drama

DIRECTION: Thomas Carter

CAST: Andy Griffith • Season Hubley • Paul Provenza • Keanu Reeves

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009) RT Audience 85%

Beautiful Inspiring Real Simple

DVD release: Sep 2009

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is a movie based on the life story of world-renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson from 1961 to 1987. (more)

GENRES: Drama

DIRECTION: Thomas Carter

CAST: Cuba Gooding, Jr. • Kimberly Elise • Aunjanue Ellis • Ele Bardha

When the Game Stands Tall (2014) RT 17% / Audience 72%

DVD release: Dec 2014

A young coach turns a losing high school football program around to go undefeated for 12 consecutive seasons. (more)

GENRES: Drama

DIRECTION: Thomas Carter

CAST: Jim Caviezel • Michael Chiklis • Laura Dern • Clancy Brown

The Monkey Hustle (1976) RT Audience 20%

DVD release: Jan 2004

A new highway threatens a Chicago neighborhood, so to protest the residents throw a block party. (more)

GENRES: Action

DIRECTION: Arthur Marks

CAST: Yaphet Kotto • Rudy Ray Moore • Kirk Calloway • Thomas Carter

Prince of Broadway (2008) RT 83% / Audience 86%

Beautiful Emotional Original Powerful

DVD release: Jan 2011

Prince of Broadway is the story of Lucky and Levon, two men whose lives converge in the underbelly of New York's wholesale fashion district. Lucky, an illegal immigrant from ... (more)

GENRES: Comedy • Drama

DIRECTION: Sean Baker

CAST: Prince Adu • Karren Karagulian • Aiden Noesi • Keyali Mayaga

All Screwed Up (2012)

FREAKY FRIDAY with a twist. Teenisha (Chyna Lane of PRECIOUS, CADILLAC RECORDS) is your modern geeky teen - smart, suffering from ADD, an outcast at school, and an oddity in ... (more)

GENRES: Action • Comedy • Family

DIRECTION: Neil Stephens

CAST: Chyna Layne • Allison Carter Thomas • Jake waldman • Olivia Stevens

The Hours Till Daylight (2016)

Marco Vasquez and his family have seen tragedy and despair throughout their lives at the hands of an evil entity. Now that Marco is about to start a family of his own, he is ... (more)