![]() |
![]() |
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
Guardian
|
|
Your Price:
$16.99
Retail Price:
$19.99
You Save:
$3.00 (15%)
Availability:
Usually ships in 1-3 business days.
Free Shipping on orders of $75 or more
Also Available: |
ORDER BY PHONE
1-800-336-4627
or 1-610-649-7565
Mon-Fri: 7am-9pm ET
Sat: 10am-9pm ET Sun: 10am-8pm ET
Item Number:
THV 5064803D |
Related products:
Customers who purchased this item also bought these:
New York Times - 09/29/2006
"[A]n action movie, a basic training movie, a swaggering sea adventure, a home front melodrama and an inspiriting tough-love heroic fable."Total Film - 11/01/2006
3 stars out of 5 -- "[Kutcher] is running at full power throughout....There's real chemistry between Kutcher and Kev..."Sight and Sound - 12/01/2006
"[Costner] brings a seasoned, low-key authority to the part....Kutcher's performance manages to keep pace with Fischer's growing maturity."Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher team up in this torch-passing tale of the brave men and women in the Navy Coastguard elite rescue diver unit. A catastrophic rescue mission leaves him wounded after his wife (Sela Ward) walks out on him, so heavily decorated, reluctantly aging rescue diver Ben Randall (Costner) takes some leave from the ocean to assume instructor duties down at the naval training base. There his humorless pedagogy rubs a lot of trainees the wrong way, but a champion high-school swimmer, Jake (Kucher), has no problem keeping up, and it looks like old Ben may have found someone worthy to be his replacement. But first each man has to wrestle with his own personal demons...and each other. Under the no-nonsense direction of Andrew Davis (THE FUGITIVE, UNDER SIEGE), the visceral energy flows nonstop through this familiar but nonetheless riveting affair. Shot in a flat, matter-of-fact manner, the harshness of naval academy life is celebrated without being glamorized, while the rescues at sea are nothing short of hair-raising, making excellent use of CGI effects to plunge the viewer right into the towering waves and storms along with the divers. Several familiar, stalwart faces are on hand to help the boys become men and the men to accept aging gracefully, including John Heard, Clancy Brown, and Neal McDonough. Costner is perfect in a curmudgeonly role that fits him like a tailor-made wet suit. The real surprise is Kutcher, who seems to grow as an actor as his character grows as a person, revealing lots of murky depth. Bonnie Bramlet adds some sparkle as the singer at the local watering hole.
| Starring | Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, Clancy Brown & Sela Ward | |
| Directed by | Andrew Davis | |
| Produced by | Beau Flynn & Tripp Vinson | |
| Edited by | Dennis Virkler & Thomas J. Nordberg | |
| Screenwriting by | Ron L. Brinkerhoff | |
| Composition by | Trevor Rabin | |
| Costume Designer by | Bryan H. Moss, Mark A. Peterson, Chester Quinton Bell & Brad Holtzman | |
| Director of Photography | Stephen St. John | |
| Production Design by | Maher Ahmad | |
| Performer | Melissa Sagemiller, Travis Willingham, John Heard, Neal McDonough & Bonnie Bramlett | |
| Executive Production by | Charlie Lyons, Zanne Devine & Armyan Bernstein |
Average Customer Rating:
![]()
Based on 147 ratings.
Be the first Movie Lover to write an online review of this product!
Portions of this page © Copyright 1948-2008
For personal non-commercial use only. All rights reserved.
© Copyright 2000-2008 OLDIES.com
and its affiliates and partner companies.
All rights reserved.
About OLDIES.com.
Contact us by Email: Products and Order Questions or
Website Comments.