Name: Down Periscope
Director: David S. Ward
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1996-03-01
Duration: 1 h 32 min
Cast: Kelsey Grammer, Lauren Holly, Rob Schneider, Harry Dean Stanton

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Down Periscope (1996)

Runtime92 min

Rating12

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Maverick Navy Lieutenant Commander Tom Dodge will never be a textbook officer, but he's a brilliant seaman who's always wanted to command a nuclear submarine — he's been given one last chance to clean up his record. Unfortunately, Admiral Graham, his nemesis, would rather sink the fleet than give Dodge his own boat. So, Graham stacks the deck against him and assigns Dodge to the Stingray, a diesel-powered WW2 submarine that can barely keep afloat. To make matters worse, Dodge's crew is a collection of maladjusted, mistake-prone misfits. Then, he's tagged the "enemy" in a crucial war game, and ordered to take on the U.S. Navy's best.

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Directed by David S. Ward, Down Periscope (1996) is a hilarious comedy that follows the misadventures of a ragtag group of Navy misfits led by the maverick Lieutenant Commander Tom Dodge, played by the brilliant Kelsey Grammer. With its blend of slapstick humor, nautical adventure, and an unlikely underdog story, this film offers a unique and entertaining take on the submarine genre that is sure to delight fans of comedies and Grammer's performances.

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Down Periscope is a 1996 American military comedy submarine film directed by David S. Ward, produced by Robert Lawrence, and starring Kelsey Grammer, Lauren Holly, and Rob Schneider along with Bruce Dern, Harry Dean Stanton, William H. Macy, and Rip Torn in supporting roles. Released by 20th Century Fox on March 1, 1996, the film focuses on Lieutenant Commander Thomas Dodge, a capable, if somewhat unorthodox, U.S. Navy officer who fights to save his career after being saddled with a group of misfit seamen who have been brought together as the crew of his first command, USS Stingray, a rusty, obsolete World War II-era diesel submarine that is the focus of a special naval war game, supervised by a bitter rival who is fighting to bury Dodge's career by any means necessary.