The programme is ideal for football coaches to develop their knowledge of technical training to improve and enhance their players' dribbling, receiving, passing, shooting and heading skills.
Advantages: Fabulous story, fabulous atmosphere and fabulous acting Disadvantages: A very few irksome things but neglible
Alfred Hitchcock?s Strangers on a Train - excellent movie! I could leave it that but of course I won?t. I?d had this 2 disk special edition in my DVD collection for a while before I got around to watching it. I really should have watched it as soon as I bought it. Not that I need an excuse to watch it all over again. There is no law that says you have to wait any given period of time before you can watch a film that you enjoyed all over again!
WHAT?S IT ALL ABOUT?
Guy Haynes is travelling on a train and get into conversation with a stranger Bruno Anthony. Guy is a semi-professional tennis player and is somewhat flattered that Bruno recognises him. During their conversation Bruno brings up Guy?s soon to be (hopefully) ex-wife Miriam and current girlfriend Ann Morton who is the daughter of senator. Guy is not very ...
Advantages: Samuel L Jackson, Feel good movie, uplifting Disadvantages: bits can feel manufactured, clichéd
The Movie
The real life coach (Ken) Carter made the news in 1999 for closing the Gym and banning any basketball activities because several of the students in his team were not doing well in the classroom. The reason he took drastic action was because all the students on the team signed contracts that they would meet a minimum criteria which encompassed all of their education, not just the basketball side of it.
Six years later in 2005 Samuel L Jackson steps into Carter's shoes for the movie where he transforms an unfit, uneducated, uncaring bunch of delinquent kids who won 4 basketball games the previous season into winners. Not only winners in terms of them being undefeated within their chosen sport, but also winners in that he instilled pride into what was until recently a mob of unruly kids.
Of course the kids initially ...
Advantages: Inspirational true life drama Disadvantages: None
.... Coach Ken Carter
Rob Brown .... Kenyon Stone
Robert Ri'chard .... Damien Carter
Rick Gonzalez .... Timo Cruz
Nana Gbewonyo .... Junior Battle
Antwon Tanner .... Worm
Channing Tatum .... Jason Lyle
Ashanti .... Kyra
Technical Details
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Certificate: 12
Length: 131 mins
No. of DVDs: 1.
Packaging
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Comes in a standard DVD case.
Bonus Material
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You get the usual scene selection which consists of 23 different scenes all with individual titles.
The language selection allows fro English, Dutch and Turkish as well as several different subtitle languages.
There is a feature on Coach Ken Carter, with interviews with the actual Ken Carter. He describes what life was like for him in Richmond when he was growing up and basically how he came to ...
christianfilmcritic 24.01.2006
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Product Information for "Technical Training - Critical Coaching (DVD)" »
Product details
Genre
Sports - Football
Classification
Exempt
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
QUANTUM LEAP; D3 DIRECT
Release date
26/12/2006
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
5408
Barcode
0826639540898
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Special Features
Backyard Training
DVD Description
The programme is ideal for football coaches to develop their knowledge of technical training to improve and enhance their players' dribbling, receiving, passing, shooting and heading skills.
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