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Showing in:
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Synopsis:
A 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 follows
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 antagonistic 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
simultaneously becomes 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 unbelievably 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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