U-571 details
Overall Rating
Total Ratings: 1
Movie Details:
- Director: Jonathan Mostow
- Produced By: Canal Plus, Universal
- Year: 2000
- Run Time: 116 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: PG13 (for war violence)
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Adventure, War
- Filmed In: Color
- Release: 2000 04 21 (USA)
- Key Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Jon Bon Jovi, Jake Weber, David Keith, Terrence "T.C." Carson, Jack Noseworthy, Full Credits
- Awards: Best Sound (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie 2000), Best Sound Effects Editing (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie 2000), Full Awards
In this World War II action thriller, American reconnaissance agents learn that a German submarine is sinking. The doomed ship carries an Enigma Machine, a special coding device that allows high-level Axis forces to send messages that can't be read without a similar encryption mechanism. Obtaining a working Enigma device would be invaluable for the Allied war effort, so a U.S. sub is sent out to rescue the machine. However, German forces have already picked up the sub's distress signal and are en route to rescue their comrades. U-571 features a distinguished cast, including Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, and Jon Bon Jovi. by Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Keywords:
- assignment
- Navy
- retrieve
- submarine
- technology
- sinking
- sea-disaster
- world-war
Themes:
- Race Against Time
- Heroic Mission
- War At Sea
