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Homens de Honra

Men of Honor

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Classificação : 14+
Idade minima permitida é de: 14 anos.Sinopse
Carl Brashear (Cuba Gooding Jr.) came from a humble black family, who lived in a rural area in Sonora, Kentucky. As a boy, in the early 1940s, he already loved diving, and as a young man he enlisted in the Navy hoping to become a diver. Initially Carl works as a cook who was one of the few tasks allowed for a black man at the time. When he decides to dive into the sea on a Friday he ends up being arrested, as blacks could only swim on Tuesday, but his speed when swimming is seen by everyone and thus becomes a "rescue swimmer", on the initiative of Captain Pullman (Powers Boothe). When Brashear asks for the divers' school he meets Captain Billy Sunday (Robert De Niro), a rough and tyrannical diving instructor who has absolute power over his decisions. At first Sunday does little to encourage Brashear's ambitions and the aspiring diver discovers that racism in the army is a fact when the other white aspirants - except Snowhill (Michael Rapaport), who for this reason was persecuted by Sunday - refuse to share accommodation with a Negro. But Brashear's courage and determination impress Sunday and the two become friends when Brashear has to fight prejudice and military bureaucracy, which wants to end his dreams of becoming commander and reforming him.
