Release Date: 4/10/2001 Original Release: 2000 Format: DVD Length: 128 minutes Rating:R (MPAA) Rating Reason: For language. UPC: 024543016656 Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainm
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 emotional wave of ups and downs: Brashear overcomes one barrier only to be met by the next, even larger one. MEN OF HONOR is at times heartbreaking and painful to watch, but the triumphant ending makes for a deeply satisfying payoff.
DVD Features
Region 1 Keep Case Special Edition Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35 Letterbox - 2.35 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Dolby Surround - English, French Additional Release Material: Documentary: "Master Chief: A Tribute to Carl Brashear" Alternate Scenes: Alternate Ending Behind the Scenes: Animated Storyboards (with Director's Commentary) Music Video: Brian McKnight - "Win" Audio Commentary: George Tillman, Jr. - Director; Cuba Gooding, Jr. - Star; Scott Marshall Smith - Screenwriter; Robert Teitel - Producer Featurette: HBO First Look Deleted Scenes: With Optional Commentary (11) Trailers: 1. Original Theatrical Trailer 2. TV Spots 3. Product Trailers - Soundtrack Promo Spot Interactive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Selection
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This has to be one of my favorite movies of all time. There are too few real hero's today. We are surrounded by false celebrities and given shallow people to follow as hero's. Carl Brashear is one of... Read the whole review at MatchFlick
