Genre: Drama, Military, Biography, Courtroom, Marriage, Society, Cult Classic
Tagline: History is made by those who break the rules.
Plot: So preaches Billy Sunday (Robert De Niro) to twenty trainees assembled on the pier of the Navy Dive School in Bayonne, New Jersey, on a chilly morning in 1952. He brags that three-quarters of them will fail the training. Of those who do pass, only three will live to reach retirement."Because diving is the most dangerous job in the Navy," states Sunday. "So who wants to quit right now?" Certainly not Carl Brashear (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), a young black third-class sailor who has spent two years writing a hundred letters to get accepted into the Navy Dive School program of the newly integrated military. In addition to undergoing a punishing physical training program, Carl must study and excel in physics, chemistry, diving, medicine and mechanics. His goal is clear, his determination fixed. A major obstacle is presented by Billy Sunday, a celebrated Master Chief Navy Diver whose exploits as a troublemaker are as legendary as his accomplishments as a diver. Medically disqualified from diving and removed from active duty, an angry Sunday has been transferred to his current position as training officer for the Navy Dive School. The Mississippi-born Sunday is certain that the rigorous dive program is no place for Carl, the son of a Kentucky sharecropper with a seventh
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