Men of Honor R
History is made by those who break the rules.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 23 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 12, 2009
- Originally Released: 2000
- Label: 20th Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robert De Niro & Cuba Gooding Jr. | |
Performer: | Charlize Theron, Hal Holbrook, David Keith, Michael Rapaport & Powers Boothe | |
Directed by | George Tillman, Jr. | |
Edited by | John Carter | |
Screenwriting by | Scott Marshall Smith | |
Composition by | Mark Isham | |
Produced by | Robert Teitel & Bill Badalato | |
Director of Photography: | Anthony B. Richmond |
Entertainment Reviews:
...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...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: C- --
Strangled with formula.
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Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Rating: 2/4 --
This seaman's tale languishes in shallow waters.
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Newsweek
Rating: 3/4 --
...a well-made throwback to the days of old, when telling a story was what mattered; not special effects or flashy editing.
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Reel Film Reviews
...[Cuba Gooding Jr.] delivers a strong, convincing performance....The movie sells itself...
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 2/5 --
De Niro's theatrics detract from the rest of the cast's subtleties and ultimately reduce an entertaining popcorn flick to a mere endurance test.
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BBC.com
Rating: 3/5 --
Stirring story--may be appropriate for some teens.
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Common Sense Media
Product Description:
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.
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- Sales Rank: 10,011
- UPC: 024543016663
- Shipping Weight: 0.19/lbs (approx)
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