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Key Information
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| Directors: |
George Tillman Jr. |
| Stars: |
Cuba Gooding Jr. |
| Actors: |
Charlize Theron |
| Genre: |
Dramas |
| Subgenre: |
African Americans |
| MPAA Rating: |
R (MPAA) |
| Available Formats: |
VHS: D-VHS D-Theater (High Definition Video) |
| UPC: |
024543037781 |
| Release Date: |
2000 |
| Running Time: |
2hr 8min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: Special Edition; Widescreen; Sensormatic, 2hr 23min
Release Company: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (May 12, 2009)
UPC: 024543016663 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS: Dubbed Spanish, 2hr 8min
Release Company: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (May 21, 2002)
UPC: 024543039105 |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Scott Marshall Smith |
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Professional Reviews
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(11/10/2000, p.C2, Kevin Thomas): "...Gooding and De Niro have the talent to pull it off, and the film emerges as a dynamic entertainment with the punch of an especially spectacular sports event..." |
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Quotes from the Movie
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"If [the navy divers]'s lucky, he dies young two hundred feet beneath the waves. Because that's the closest he will ever get to becoming a hero."--Billy Sunday (Robert De Niro) to diving trainees
"Some things just don't mix, do they?"--Mister Pappy (Hal Holbrook) to Billy Sunday
"Why do you want this so badly?"--Jo (Aunjanue Ellis)
"Because they said I couldn't have it."--Carl Brashear (Cuba Gooding Jr.)
"Since when does deserving mean anything?"--Billy Sunday to Carl Brashear |
| More Information |
| Details: |
An heroic life gets a suitably dramatic retelling in George Tillman, Jr.'s docudrama MEN OF HONOR, based on the true story of Carl Brashear, the first African American to become a United States Navy master diver. The film employs the conventional yet pleasurable against-all-odds narrative. Carl Brashear (played with noble grace by Cuba Gooding Jr.) is the son of a degraded Southern sharecropper. Determined to succeed in the vocation he believes he was born for, Brashear enlists in the navy. Once there, however, the determined young man finds his dream inaccessible--thwarted by the forces of institutional and personal racism. When, after a long and difficult struggle, he is finally allowed into diving school, he finds himself under the authority of Billy Sunday (Robert De Niro), a former master diver whose injured lung has left him permanently above water. Sunday becomes simultaneously Brashear's most vicious adversary and most loyal supporter, motivating him to succeed. The story that follows is a highly... |
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