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Men of Honor

  • 20002000
  • RR
  • 2h 9m
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Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding Jr. in Men of Honor (2000)
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The story of Carl Brashear, the first African-American U.S. Navy Diver, and the man who trained him.The story of Carl Brashear, the first African-American U.S. Navy Diver, and the man who trained him.The story of Carl Brashear, the first African-American U.S. Navy Diver, and the man who trained him.
IMDb RATING
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119K
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POPULARITY
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70
    • George Tillman Jr.
    • Scott Marshall Smith
  • Stars
    • Cuba Gooding Jr.
    • Robert De Niro
    • Charlize Theron
    • George Tillman Jr.
    • Scott Marshall Smith
  • Stars
    • Cuba Gooding Jr.
    • Robert De Niro
    • Charlize Theron
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    • 266User reviews
    • 82Critic reviews
    • 56Metascore
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    Men of Honor
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    Cuba Gooding Jr. stars as Carl Brashear
    Cuba Gooding Jr. in Men of Honor (2000)
    Aunjanue Ellis in Men of Honor (2000)
    Carl has a confrontation with Billy Sunday
    Men of Honor (2000)
    Cuba Gooding Jr. in Men of Honor (2000)
    Billy and Carl
    Billy helps Carl prove he is fit for duty (photo credit: Philip Caruso/SMPSP)
    Robert DeNiro stars as Billy Sunday (photo credit: Philip Caruso/SMPSP)
    Men of Honor (2000)
    Gooding and De Niro with Director George Tillman Jr. (photo credit: Philip Caruso/SMPSP)
    Carl meets Billy's wife, Gwen

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    Cuba Gooding Jr.
    Cuba Gooding Jr.
    • Chief Carl Brashear
    Robert De Niro
    Robert De Niro
    • Master Chief Billy Sunday
    Charlize Theron
    Charlize Theron
    • Gwen Sunday
    Aunjanue Ellis
    Aunjanue Ellis
    • Jo
    Hal Holbrook
    Hal Holbrook
    • 'Mr. Pappy'
    Michael Rapaport
    Michael Rapaport
    • GM1 Snowhill
    Powers Boothe
    Powers Boothe
    • Captain Pullman
    David Keith
    David Keith
    • Captain Hartigan
    Holt McCallany
    Holt McCallany
    • MM1 Dylan Rourke
    David Conrad
    David Conrad
    • Lt.…
    Joshua Leonard
    Joshua Leonard
    • PO2 Timothy Douglas Isert
    Carl Lumbly
    Carl Lumbly
    • Mac Brashear
    Lonette McKee
    Lonette McKee
    • Ella Brashear
    Glynn Turman
    Glynn Turman
    • Chief Floyd
    Dennis Troutman
    • Boots
    Joshua Feinman
    Joshua Feinman
    • DuBoyce
    Theo Nicholas Pagones
    Theo Nicholas Pagones
    • FC Mellegrano
    • (as Theo Pagones)
    Ryan Honey
    Ryan Honey
    • Surveyor 2nd Yarmouth
      • George Tillman Jr.
      • Scott Marshall Smith
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    • Trivia
      Brazilian diver Alberto José do Nascimento was the only one that supported Brashear since the beginning in the team, but was ignored in the movie and replaced by different characters along the film
    • Goofs
      Twice early in the movie, Jo just shows up where someone like her would never have gone by herself, like into the Navy bar where Brasher and Sunday had their breath-holding contest, or unescorted onto the Navy base the night of Carl's final diving exam.
    • Quotes

      Billy Sunday: The Navy Diver is not a fighting man, he is a salvage expert. If it is lost underwater, he finds it. If it's sunk, he brings it up. If it's in the way, he moves it. If he's lucky, he will die young, 200 feet beneath the waves, for that is the closest he'll ever get to being a hero.

    • Crazy credits
      The woman in the detox center is listed as "Pinch-Faced Woman at Detox Center"
    • Alternate versions
      DVD includes several deleted scenes cut from the final film:
      • Billy lies drunk on a beach and is caught by Military Police; the film then cuts to the opening scene showing just why he is in handcuffs.
      • Carl finds Pappy's dog and he makes a white officer wash the poor animal in lye because carl touched it.
      • an alternate ending showing just what exactly happened to Billy
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: The 6th Day/You Can Count on Me/Men of Honor/Little Nicky/Wonder Boys (2000)
    • Soundtracks
      Anchors Aweigh
      Written by Charles A. Zimmerman

      Arranged by Will Schaefer

      Courtesy of Associated Production Music

    User reviews266

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    10/10
    The movie tells the story of a Professional Navy Man.
    This film is an excellent military movie. It may not be an excellent Hollywood Movie, but that does not matter. Hollywood has a reputation of sacrificing accuracy for good entertainment, but that is not the case with this movie. Other reviewers have found this movie to be too slow for their taste, but – as a retired Soldier – I appreciate the pace the movie crew deliberately took to tell their story as completely as possible given the two hours and nine minutes allotted. The story itself has been told and retold several times over, but it remains for a professional soldier – and an African American at that – to report on the story as presented by the movie crew, and as it presents the US Navy to the world. The story of Brashear's work to become a Navy Diver, and his life as a Navy Diver beyond his graduation, is not the only story that is presented. There I also the story of how Master Chief Petty Officer Sunday defied the illegal order of his Commanding Officer that Petty Officer 2nd Class Brashear not be passed in his test dive no matter how well he did, and paid the price of a loss of one Stripe and a change of assignment. It also told the true story how Brashear found the third Hydrogen Bombs lost in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Spain in the 1950's, and how he saved the life of another seaman who was in the line of the snapped running line that would have snapped him in two if Brashear had not shoved him out of the way and took the shot himself. This was a complex story that was worth telling, and I will admit that two hours and nine minutes was not enough to tell the full story, and I can tell from the deleted scenes on the DVD that the crew tried their best to tell a story as full as possible. As a professional soldier, I was proud to see such a great story told in such a comprehensive manner, and to see the traditions and honor of the navy preserved in such a natural and full manner.
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    • cseon
    • Feb 11, 2006

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    • Release date
      • November 10, 2000 (United States)
      • United States
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      • Cathlamet, Washington, USA
    • Production companies
      • Fox 2000 Pictures
      • State Street Pictures
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      • Color
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