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    Down Periscope

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    Poster of the movie Down Periscope
    1996     Comedy    
    USA
    1h 32min

    Lt. Commander Thomas Dodge (Kelsey Grammer) is a free-thinking yet undeniably capable officer whose first command in the U.S. nuclear submarine corpse turns out to be a World War II-era diesel-powered rust bucket that hasn't seen active duty since Benny Goodman topped the song charts. Concerned about the threat of quiet diesel-powered submarines now being sold off to unreliable Third World countries by a cash-strapped Soviet Union, the Navy develops a war game to determine if Dodge's leaky Stingray can somehow tiptoe past the nuclear defenses along the American East Coast. Dodge is given a grab bag of greenhorns, malcontents and just plain idiots to pilot the old sub. Now Tom Dodge must not only contend with an ancient vessel, he must make sailors out of a motley crew.

    Directed byDavid S_ Ward
    Written byHugh Wilson, Andrew Kurtzman, Eliot Wald
    Company20th Century Studios20th Century Studios20th Century Studios

    Starring

    Kelsey Grammer
    Lauren Holly
    Rob Schneider
    Harry Dean Stanton
    Bruce Dern
    William H. Macy
    Harland Williams
    Rip Torn
    Patton Oswalt
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