Men of Honor (2000)

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Studio: Fox 2000

Rating: R

Release Date: Nov 10, 2000

Running Time: 129 mins. (V)

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding, Jr, Charlize Theron, Aunjanue Ellis, Hal Holbrook, Michael Rapaport, Powers Boothe, David Keith, Holt McCallany, Joshua Leonard

director: George Tillman, Jr, Ernie Orsatti

Chronicles the inspirational, true-life exploits of Carl Brashear, who became the Navy's first African-American Master Diver. Brashear runs into formidable opposition in the form of Billy Sunday, a rebellious senior officer and celebrated Master Chief Navy Diver. But it is Sunday who ultimately helps Brashear, the son of a Kentucky sharecropper, overcome a crippling injury, fight racism and bureaucracy, and make military history.

Cuba Gooding Jr. plunges into an ocean of military-drama clichés as the U.S. Navy's first Black deep-sea diver.

December 10, 2000

Potent acting enlivens this true story of a black Navy diver fighting 1950s racism President Clinton led the standing ovation at the White House for this true story of Carl Brashear, a sharecropper's son from Kentucky who became the first African-American certified by the Navy as a master chief diver. With Cuba Gooding Jr. playing Brashear at full tilt and Robert De Niro getting in his licks as Billy Sunday, the bigot instructor who becomes Carl's unlikely mentor, Men of Honor is built to push…