Crimson Tide

Crimson Tide1995

Stars: Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, Matt Craven, George Dzundza
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Rating: R
Runtime: 116 minutes

You can almost hear the studio pitch meeting echoing throughout Crimson Tide like the sonar on the soundtrack: "It's The Cain Mutiny on a nuclear submarine!" When radio communications problems aboard the USS Alabama prevent the sub from re… more »



Hunter:
Look, it wasn't a mutiny, I did everything by the book.

Chief of the Boat:
It's not about the book. If the Russians are gonna launch and we sit here and do nothing... who's gonna stop 'em? Half of me's glad the Captain came back.

Hunter:
No orders are right if they're wrong.

Chief of the Boat:
We don't know that.

Hunter:
You're right, we don't know. That's why it's our job to find out. [pours coffee] What if Radchenko surrendered and it's over, huh? We launch. They see us, and they launch. Our birds pass each other in the air. Boom. What have you got?

Chief of the Boat:
Nuclear war.

Hunter:
Nuclear holocaust.

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