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Overview

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6.4/10   30,805 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Jonathan Mostow (story)
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Release Date:
21 April 2000 (USA) more
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Tagline:
You won't come up for air until it's over! more
Plot:
A German submarine is boarded by disguised American submariners trying to capture their Enigma cipher machine. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 2 wins & 9 nominations more
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U-571 is a movie with a horrible story and contains a lot of false pathos more (562 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Matthew McConaughey ... Lt. Andrew Tyler, Executive Officer

Bill Paxton ... Lt. Cmdr. Mike Dahlgren

Harvey Keitel ... CPO Henry Klough

Jon Bon Jovi ... Lt. Pete Emmett, Chief Engineer

David Keith ... Maj. Matthew Coonan, USMC, Office of Naval Intelligence

Thomas Kretschmann ... Capt.-Lt. Gunther Wassner

Jake Weber ... Lt. Hirsch, USNR

Jack Noseworthy ... Seaman Bill Wentz, Radioman
Tom Guiry ... Seaman Ted 'Trigger' Fitzgerald, Radioman

Will Estes ... Seaman Ronald 'Rabbit' Parker, Torpedoman
Terrence 'T.C.' Carson ... Steward Eddie Carson

Erik Palladino ... Seaman Anthony Mazzola, Planesman

Dave Power ... Seaman Charles 'Tank' Clemens, Machinist Mate

Derk Cheetwood ... Seaman Herb Griggs, Helmsman
Matthew Settle ... Ens. Keith Larson, Chief Torpedoman
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
U-571 (France)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for war violence.
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116 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS (8 channels)

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In the original script, when Tyler is thoughtfully looking at the pictures in the German submarine's mess, he recognizes the prisoner wearing a captain's uniform. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: The sonar ping sound effect is wrong. Throughout the movie you hear ping-and-return (echo) 2-tone sound effect, the return echo coming closer and closer as the ship passes overhead. This is the sound the sonar man on the ship (not the submarine) would hear: his sonar's ping and the echo off the sub. In the sub, you would hear the ship's ping and that's all. If you hear ping-and-return in a sub, then you are listening to the sound of the submarine's own active sonar. more
Quotes:
Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: He torpedoed me, Chief. Nine months aboard the S-33 doing the best job I know how. Doing everything once, and then doing it again just to make sure I didn't miss anything the first time.
Chief Klough: You'll get your chance sir. There's other commands in the navy.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Top Gear: (2004-11-21)" (2004) more
Soundtrack:
My Heart Stood Still more

FAQ

Is this a historically accurate film?
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152 out of 241 people found the following comment useful.
U-571 is a movie with a horrible story and contains a lot of false pathos, 6 July 2002
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Author: Alexander from Munich, Germany

Thank god for the US-Navy. The german U-571 is seriously damaged, so that the full, perfectly trained german crew isn`t able to run it. Of course a hand-full american sailors, who even can`t read the (german) instruments of the different machines in U-571 probably manage to get away with the submarine immediately. After being heavily bombed by a german destroyer, they are even able to reach an absolutely incredible depth. But not enough, of course they send the destroyer to the bottom with only one (coincidentally their last) torpedo. Not only the fact, that this heroic voyage is absolutely implausible and ridiculous, makes U-571 the worst movie I´ve ever seen. Also the story, that the Americans found and decoded the Enigma is just a falsification of history. Of course America did a lot for ending the nazi-tyranny, but in this case, it was the achievement of english sailors and scientists. I´m really not a german nationalist and there were a lot of good and even great movies about WWII ( e.g. Saving Private Ryan) but U-571 isn`t. It´s really a disgusting, poor effort of making money with the most primitive sort of patriotism.

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