Annapolis

Annapolis (2006)

  • 10% of critics liked it
    (111 reviews)

  • 63% of users liked it
    (118,618 ratings)

A poor but ambitious young man strives to make good in one of the most competitive institutions on Earth in this military drama. Jake Huard (James Franco) is a young man from a small Maryland town who grew up in a blue-collar family with few opportunities. Wanting to make something of himself after… More

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PG-13,
Directed By
Written By
Dave Collard
Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Jan 27, 2006 Wide
Walt Disney Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Ben Kenigsberg, Village Voice

    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.

  • James Berardinelli, ReelViews

    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.

  • Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

    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.

  • Brian Lowry, Variety

    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.

  • Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star

    The movie plays out with the same martial drumbeat inevitability of a parade march.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Rachel F


    James Franco is just lovely. It has a good storyline too.

  • Dean M


    This film is a bit familiar to <i>An Officer and a Gentleman</i>, but except the boxing. Really great tale of courage and honour, even what I thought of James Franco is alike Richard Gere and Tyrese Gibson is alike Lou Gossett Jr in their characters.

  • Todd S


    Even thou he was in several things before Annapolis, I consider this to be James Franco's breakthrough role. Just the training and studying alone, must have been as intense as the film itself. Franco plays Jake Huard, a first year student at the Naval academy. The story takes you… More

  • Fascade F


    Good solid all around performances...Shows the anguish of how hard it is to get into a Naval academy and prove yourself...Great boxing scenes.

  • Mike T


    It's as bad as everyone says it is. James Franco does as much as he possibly can with a toilet paper screenplay.

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