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Men of honour (Men of honor; Navy diver)

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Carl Brashear (Cuba Gooding Junior) lets nothing stand in the way of his dreams. The son of a Kentucky sharecropper, Carl leaves home for what he expects would be a better life. "Never quit .... be the best," his father had told him, and Carl takes those words to heart.

After he joins the newly-integrated Navy, Carl spends two years writing a hundred letters before the service accepts his application for its dive school program. Carl's training officer, Billy Sunday (Robert De Niro), wants no part of Carl or his ambitions. Sunday, a celebrated master chief Navy diver whose exploits as a troublemaker are as legendary as his accomplishments as a diver, relentlessly taunts and challenges Carl, expecting him to falter and quit. But Carl has other ideas. His goal is clear, his determination fixed. Nothing will stand in the way of his dream of becoming a Navy diver. Not even Billy Sunday.

Years later, after Carl suffers a crippling injury, he and Sunday unexpectedly join forces. Never one to turn down an opportunity to flout the system, the rebellious senior officer helps Carl buck Navy bureaucracy, overcome the loss of a leg, and go on to make military history. By the time he retires, Carl earns the esteemed titles of Master Diver and Master Chief, the Navy's highest rank for an enlisted man.

Based on a true life story.

Also starring Aunjanue Ellis as Jo, Charlize Theron as Gwen, Holt McCallany as Rourke, Joshua Leonard as Isert, Dennis Troutman as Boots, Joshua Feinman as Duboyce, David Keith as Hartigan, Theo Nicholas Pagones as Mellegrano, Ryan Honey as Yarmouth, Michael Rapaport as Snowhill, David Conrad as Hanks, Hal Holbrook as Mister Pappy, Powers Boothe as Pullman. Written by Scott Marshall Smith, directed by George Tillman Junior.

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Theatrical report

A story about a black man who tries to be accepted in a white man's society - not an easy thing - and since Men of honour is based on an actual black person's life, the content is not going to be "beefed" or "Holl-e-wooded."

Men of honour was longer than I expected it would be, but that's to be expected with a biographical film about a black man who doens't behave as if he's black. It's interesting, too. I've seen biographies about white folks that are just plain boring, but all the documentaries on black folks (such as Tina Turner, Hurricane Carter, Martin Luther king, Mohammed Ali, Jesus...) all have an inherent action content that keeps things moving along.

I really enjoyed this film and he can't think of anything else to write, but he recommends that you see it.