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2016 film by Mario Van Peebles

USS Indianapolis: Men of Backbone
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Directed by	Mario Van Peebles
Written by	Cam Cannon Richard Rionda Del Castro
Produced by	Michael Mendelsohn Richard Rionda Del Castro
Starring	Nicolas Cage Tom Sizemore Thomas Jane James Remar Matt Lanter Brian Presley Cody Walker
Cinematography	Andrzej Sekuła
Edited by	Robert A. Ferretti
Music by	Laurent Eyquem
Production companies	Hannibal Classics Patriot Pictures
Distributed by	Saban Films
Release date	October 14, 2016 (2016-10-14) (United States)
Running time	130 minutes^[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$xl million^[2]
Box office	$1,663,785^[2]

USS Indianapolis: Men of Backbone (also titled USS Indianapolis: Disaster in the Philippine Sea ) is a 2016 American war disaster pic directed past Mario Van Peebles and written past Cam Cannon and Richard Rionda Del Castro, based largely on the true story of the loss of the ship of the same proper name in the closing stages of the 2nd Earth War. The moving-picture show stars Nicolas Cage, Tom Sizemore, Thomas Jane, Matt Lanter, Brian Presley, and Cody Walker. Principal photography began on June 19, 2015 in Mobile, Alabama. The film premiered in the Philippines on Baronial 24, 2016. It was released equally a digital rental on iTunes and Amazon in the Us on Oct 14, 2016 and in limited theaters during the Veterans Day weekend.^[3] ^[4]

Plot [edit]

In 1945, the Portland-class heavy cruiser USSIndianapolis, commanded by Helm Charles McVay (Nicolas Cage), delivers parts of the atomic flop that would later exist used to bomb Hiroshima at the end of World War II. While patrolling in the Philippine Sea, on July thirty in 1945, the unescorted transport is torpedoed and sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) submarine I-58, taking 300 crewmen with information technology to the lesser of the Philippine Sea, while the remainder climb out of the ship and were left stranded at sea for 5 days without food and water in shark-infested waters.

With no hope for five days, nigh of the remaining coiffure-members were eaten by sharks or would die of salt h2o poisoning by drinking seawater (which too caused some of those injured to dice from seasickness and infectious wounds). Others swam off from their groups later on hallucinating of a non-real island, never to be seen once again. On the 5th day, the surviving crew were rescued by an airplane pilot who spotted them by take a chance and called for a rescue. Merely 316 survived the disaster. Looking for a scapegoat for their own gross negligence, the US Navy court-martials and convicts Captain McVay for "hazarding his send by failing to zigzag", despite overwhelming evidence supporting McVay (such as even having the former captain of the IJN's I-58 submarine to testify for the trial, which proved McVay to be not at fault). It ends with Helm McVay committing suicide years after the tragedy after being harassed and tormented with phone calls and mail from aroused and grief-stricken relatives of the deceased crew-members, likewise as the media (more often than not in the grade of newspapers, which placed the blame on him for the ship's sinking). In the moving-picture show's postscript they testify President Bill Clinton exonerating Captain McVay of all charges on Oct 30, 2000.

In a subplot, Indianapolis crewmember Mike D'Antonio falls in honey with his childhood friend Brian "Bama" Smithwick's friend and love involvement Clara. Smithwick is a shipmate of D'Antonio and diver on the doomed send. D'Antonio purchases an engagement ring before the trip to Tinian to propose to the girl who tells D'Antonio earlier the trip that she is expecting their outset child. During a brawl involving 2 of the crewmen, D'Antonio loses the band and i of the coiffure members, Alvin, steals it. After the transport is destroyed, Smithwick and D'Antonio spend the next few days in the ocean with the rest of the crew where D'Antonio succumbs to massive leg injuries received in a shark set on and Smithwick is given the engagement ring by Alvin. Bama proposes to Clara to help her raise her child and she accepts his proposal.

While the credits roll, ii Navy sailors recount the sharks in the waters and existent rescue footage is shown forth with many still shots of lost sailors.

Cast [edit]

Nicolas Cage as Helm Charles B. McVay 3^[5]
Tom Sizemore as Primary Petty Officer McWhorter^[6]
Thomas Jane every bit Lieutenant Adrian Marks
Matt Lanter as Chief Lilliputian Officer Brian "Bama" Smithwick^[7]
James Remar every bit Rear Admiral William S. Parnell
Brian Presley^[8] as Waxman
Yutaka Takeuchi as Commander Mochitsura Hashimoto^[9]
Johnny Wactor every bit Connor
Adam Scott Miller as Mike D'Antonio
Cody Walker as Piddling Officeholder Tertiary Class Due west^[ten]
Callard Harris as Lieutenant Standish
Mandela Van Peebles as Theodore
Craig Tate equally Garrison
Joey Capone equally Alvin
Emily Tennant as Clara
Shamar Sanders as Quinn
Max Ryan every bit Lieutenant Wilbur "Chuck" Gwinn
Patrice Cols as Jean-Pierre
Currie Graham equally Captain Ryan, Prosecutor In McVay's Courtroom Martial.
Matthew Pearson as "Deuce"
Timothy Patrick Cavanaugh as Commander Cavanaugh
Jose Julian equally Sanchez
Weronika Rosati every bit Louise, McVay's Wife
Mattie Liptak every bit Paul
Justin Nesbitt as Lindy

Product [edit]

Evolution [edit]

The project USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage, set in July 1945, is near the Navy ship USSIndianapolis and was first announced in 2011 by Hannibal Classics. Virtually the terminate of World War Two, when the ship was returning from Tinian after delivering important parts for an diminutive bomb, it was torpedoed by I-58.^[xi] ^[12] one,197 people were aboard the transport, out of which simply 317 survived, almost 300 sank along with the transport, and all others were killed by aridity, exposure, salt water poisoning, or shark attacks.^[11] ^[12] Cam Cannon and Richard Rionda Del Castro, the latter also being engaged every bit a producer, wrote the script for the motion picture. The focus of the picture is on the bravery of the crewmen aboard Indianapolis.^[12] On Dec 17, 2013, Hannibal ready Mario Van Peebles to straight the motion picture, while Patriot Pictures would finance and Rionda Del Castro would produce along with Michael Mendelsohn.^[11] The studio (Hannibal) had developed the motion picture in five years by consulting the survivors of the disaster, including the US Navy and the U.s. Coast Guard. The United states of america Navy helped with the completion and finalization of the terminal draft of the script.^[5] ^[xi] Walt Conti of Edge Innovations would provide the animated sharks, and the product reportedly secured two fully operational World War II-era planes to portray the planes that were involved in the existent rescue operations afterward the disaster.^[8] Silo Inc. and Hydroflex were attached to handle digital furnishings and underwater filming for the motion-picture show, respectively.^[5] USSAlabama and USSPulsate would both be used along with the Battleship Memorial Park to draw Indianapolis and the Japanese submarine.^[8] The flick is dedicated to the men of the USS Indianapolis and their families.

Pre-production [edit]

On Feb 5, 2015, Nicolas Cage was prepare to play the pb role of Captain Charles McVay in the motion picture.^[five] Matt Lanter was attack April ane, 2015 to play a US Navy diver, named Chief Trivial Officer Brian "Bama" Smithwick.^[7] Lanter revealed to the producers after his audition that his grandfather, Kenley Lanter, was a Signalman on Indianapolis. Furthermore, Lanter'south father, Joe Lanter, is a chairman of 2d Watch, an organisation of survivors and their families. Joe Lanter and his co-chair, Maria Bullard, stayed in contact with the producers during pre-product and were welcomed to the set during photography. On May 13, 2015, Variety revealed that Tom Sizemore, Thomas Jane and Brian Presley had besides joined the bandage of the film, in which Sizemore would play McWhorter, ane of the crew on the ship, while Jane was to play the airplane pilot Chuck Gwinn.^[8] In May 2015, Saban Films acquired the Due north American distribution rights to the motion picture.^[viii] On May 18, 2015, Sizemore'southward part was confirmed by Diversity.^[6] On July 15, 2015, Cody Walker was cast in the picture show to play one of the crewmen aboard the ship.^[10]

Filming [edit]

Principal photography on the film began on June 19, 2015 in Mobile, Alabama with many scenes shot aboard the battleship USSAlabama.^[thirteen] Filming was also to have place in San Francisco and Kyoto, Japan,^[8] but the producers afterward opted to double Mobile for both San Francisco and Nippon. On June 27, 2015, filming was underway in Orange Beach.^[14] A World War Two-era vintage PBY-6A Catalina amphibious seaplane was being used for the filming on June 29, 2015, when it took on water and beached well-nigh the Flora-Bama lounge, Orange Beach.^[xv] There were no injuries during the incident, and the rescue team secured the pilot and co-pilot.^[sixteen] Producers had to put the production on hold temporarily to save the plane, but "the salve company was unable to save the shipping," which was cleaved apart, co-ordinate to the producers.^[16] ^[17] The plane was provided by firefighters from Washington and was being piloted by Fred and Jayson Owen.^[18] After filming on July fourteen in downtown Mobile, Cage met a real Navy veteran named Richard Stephens on a demote at Bienville Square, Stephens was one of the survivors of the ship, then Muzzle and Stephens had a long talk near the disaster.^[xix]

Reception [edit]

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an blessing rating of 17% based on 12 reviews, with an boilerplate rating of 3.4/10. On Metacritic, the pic has a weighted average score of 30 out of 100, based on eight critics, indicating "more often than not unfavorable reviews".

Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter referred to the motion-picture show as "slapdash", and called the special effects "garish and unconvincing"; the moving-picture show's sharks he thought were "Sharknado-way".^[20] Glenn Kenny of RogerEbert.com thought, just as Scheck and many other reviewers did, that such a "harrowing" story would have been adjusted to the screen far earlier. His consensus was the film was "non exactly unwatchable", simply also "completely not worthy of watching", with its "lazy inattention to period detail", summing it upward every bit "ii-hours plus of bumbling and pandering".^[21] Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times criticized the film'southward "lack of subtlety" in dealing with such an "almost unbelievable" story. He called the characters' storylines away from the main plot "flimsy" and the special furnishings "rickety", and noted that the film's "leaden" treatment of the central story "suck[ed] all the drama out of it".^[22]

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^ ^a ^b Lincoln, Ross A. (April 1, 2015). "Matt Lanter Boards 'USS Indianapolis' With Nicolas Cage; Two More than Jump In 'The Lake'". deadline.com . Retrieved Apr 27, 2015.
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^ Yutaka Takeuchi on IMDb
^ ^a ^b McNary, Dave (July xv, 2015). "Paul Walker's Brother Cody Walker Starring in Nicolas Cage's 'USS Indianapolis'". diversity.com . Retrieved July 16, 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d McNary, Dave (December 17, 2013). "'USS: Indianapolis' Shoot Set for June in Alabama (EXCLUSIVE)". Diversity . Retrieved Apr 27, 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c "2d USS Indianapolis Film to go into Product". nukethefridge.com. August twenty, 2011. Retrieved June 25, 2015.
^ "'USS Indianapolis: Men of Backbone' Starring Nicolas Muzzle Open Casting Call". projectcasting.com. June ten, 2015. Retrieved June 25, 2015.
^ Coffaro, Devan (June 27, 2015). "Exclusive: FOX10 tours USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage". fox10tv.com . Retrieved June 30, 2015.
^ Mullen, John (2016-05-06). "Vintage plane planned for movie beached at Flora-Bama". gulfcoastnewstoday.com . Retrieved 2016-x-10 .
^ ^a ^b Lowe, Kinsey (July three, 2015). "'USS Indianapolis' Production Delayed After Vintage Airplane Waterlogged". borderline.com . Retrieved July 5, 2015.
^ Ikenberg, Tamara (July iv, 2015). "WWII – era plane flown in for picture show "USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage" falls apart during save attempt". al.com . Retrieved July 6, 2015.
^ Anderson, Marc D. (July 1, 2015). "Beached WWII-era seaplane disrupts filming of Nicolas Cage movie in Orange Beach". al.com . Retrieved July half-dozen, 2015.
^ Ikenberg, Tamara (July 14, 2015). "Nicolas Muzzle meets a homo of courage on the set of 'USS Indianapolis: Men of Backbone'". al.com . Retrieved July 16, 2015.
^ Scheck, Frank (November 11, 2016). "'USS Indianapolis: Men of Backbone': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved January 3, 2020.
^ Kenny, Glenn (November 11, 2016). "USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage". RogerEbert.com . Retrieved January 3, 2020.
^ Genzlinger, Neil (November x, 2016). "Review: 'UsaDue south. Indianapolis,' a War (Yawn) Catastrophe". The New York Times . Retrieved Jan three, 2020.