Men of Honor
| Men of Honor | |
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Original film poster
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| Directed by | George Tillman, Jr. |
| Produced by | Bill Badalato Robert Teitel |
| Written by | Scott Marshall Smith |
| Starring |
Robert De Niro Cuba Gooding, Jr. |
| Music by | Mark Isham |
| Cinematography | Anthony B. Richmond |
| Edited by | John Carter Dirk Westervelt |
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Fox 2000 Pictures
State Street Pictures |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time
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129 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $32 million |
| Box office | $82,343,495 |
Men of Honor (released in the UK and Ireland as Men of Honour) is a 2000 drama film, starring Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding, Jr. The film was directed by George Tillman, Jr. It is inspired by the true story of Master Chief Petty Officer Carl Brashear, the first African American master diver in the United States Navy.
Carl Brashear (Gooding, Jr.) leaves his native Kentucky and the life of a sharecropper in 1948 by joining the United States Navy. As a crew member of the salvage ship USS Hoist, where he is assigned to the galley, he is inspired by the bravery of one of the divers, Master Chief Petty Officer Leslie William "Billy" Sunday (De Niro). He is determined to overcome racism and become the first black American Navy diver, even proclaiming that he will become a master diver. He eventually is selected to attend Diving and Salvage School in Bayonne, New Jersey, where he arrives as a boatswain's mate second class. He finds that Master Chief Sunday is the leading chief petty officer and head instructor, who is under orders from the school's eccentric, bigoted commanding officer to ensure that Brashear fails.
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