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Men of Honor, 2000

Starring: Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding Jr.

Directed by: George Tillman Jr.

Written by: Scott Marshall Smith

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 129 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:6.9

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The mood of Men of Honor is uplifting, sincere, and touching. The plot centers around racism, going against the odds, and military life. It is a drama and period movie. In approach, Men of Honor is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, on a military base. It happens in the 1950s.

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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.