Dreaming of attending the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland, a young man finally narrowly makes the cut and becomes one of the 1,200 applicants selected for the freshman class. However, once there, he begins to suffer from self-doubt and wonders if he can truly measure up to the standards held by the revered institution.
9 October 1981, Aurora, Colorado, USA
7 January 1970, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
17 August 1972, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
13 June 1927, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
26 August 1982, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, USA
26 May 1973, Elkton, Maryland, USA
4 October 1975, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
26 April 1980, Panama City, Panama
January 23, 1974 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
September 11, 1985 in Woodbury, New Jersey, USA
June 22, 1967 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
8 February 1981, Allen, Texas, USA
17 August 1969, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
3 October 1969, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
10 July 1981, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
30 December 1978, Watts, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 February 1963, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
December 28, 2010
Annapolis has the seeds of a good, if derivative, film in it, but gives that up in favor of being a mediocre boxing film.January 28, 2006
This isn't as much a movie as it is a recipe for a cinematic casserole in which the ingredients are clichés and rip-offs.January 27, 2006
Annapolis is less like a movie than a virus -- one that clings so tenaciously to its host genre that it begins to take on the characteristics of a real movie, even though it's just faking.November 27, 2006
...basically a military-recruitment commercial.January 27, 2006
Judging Annapolis by its most appealing attributes (among all the cliches): It's not bad superficially, but neither is it all that it could be.March 24, 2007
Annapolis throws the same punches as many of its inspirational fellow cadets and almost, but not quite, wins the fight.October 03, 2006
full review in GreekSeptember 17, 2007
What Annapolis really is, more than a college movie or a boot-camp movie, is a boxing movie, and a run of the mill one at that.April 15, 2009
Character development and narrative substance are absent in this wispy movie about beefcake and getting a knack for teamwork in an oppressive atmosphere.January 31, 2006
Jake [is] forced to swallow his pride and ask girly Brewster to train him. It's a marginally subversive moment in a movie that otherwise falls in line.January 27, 2006
The movie plays out with the same martial drumbeat inevitability of a parade march.