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Genres:
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Action /
Drama /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Tony Scott
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Actors:
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Matt Craven,
Danny Nucci,
Denzel Washington,
Gene Hackman,
George Dzundza,
Viggo Mortensen,
James Gandolfini,
Rocky Carroll,
Jaime Gomez,
Michael Milhoan,
Scott Burkholder,
Lillo Brancato,
Eric Bruskotter,
Rick Schroder,
Steve Zahn
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Duration:
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116 min.
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Rating:
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(7.1/10)97.5
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Plot Summary:
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In the close days, Russian rebels comprise entranced over one of the ICBM bases in the USSR. Alarmed through the landscape of a mutineer go, the U.S. sends the U.S.S. Alabama, a atomic ballistic submarine, to pay attention to over the wretched and get even with in example they launch. While on beat, the submarine is attacked and the portable radio systems are knocked abroad, but after first receiving an predicament idea from HQ to launch nuclear missiles at the rebels. A second predicament message received during the contest is at best partially recovered. Captain Ramsey decides to carry out ... the codification to opening the missiles regardless while XO Orion wants to halt suitable a victorious reception of the another message once the radio systems are repaired. The at variance escalates into mutiny as Ramsey and Hunter fight for control of the Alabama's nuclear missiles.
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Crimson Tide
Stonking good thriller! Hackman & Washington are good foils for the other as the "old" and the "new" sea dogs. Gripping to the end.
Crimson Tide
With the world on the brink of nuclear war, mutiny is threatened aboard an American submarine. Military thriller starring Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman
Denzel Washington is the new officer on nuclear submarine USS Alabama, patrolling the coasts of an increasingly unstable Soviet Union under Gene Hackman's command. When the crew is ordered to fire a nuclear missile against Russia, a follow-up message is interrupted by an attack on the sub. Could it have been an instruction to abort the attack? Washington and Hackman are of different opinions and two men's very different philosophies result in an epic fight in which the difference between heroism and mutiny is not clearly drawn.
Effective and well handled, this is a gripping story even though a few too many Hollyw...
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