A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's "A" School, where legendary rescue swimmer Ben Randall teaches him some hard lesson about loss, love, and self-sacrifice.
The US Coast Guard verion of "Top Gun" with a little "An Officer and A Gentleman" thrown in: an aging USCG rescue swimmer's team is killed in a horrific rescue mission. Immediately prior to this terrible event, his wife also announced that she cannot take anymore. His firt love is always the rescue mission. This leaves him an obviously emotional wreck. His commender gives him a choice - quit or take a position as an intructor at the USCG training facility in Louisiana. Reluctantly he takes the position. Moving into the school, he immediately increases the 18 week curriculum that routinely fails half of the people that attend. Here he meets a young man with unlimited potential, but with some secret that seems to hold him back as a team player. Delving into his past, links are found that make him a psychic twin to the older man. Thrown into the midst of the story is a romance with a local girl...

in the United States Coast Guard's name is by no means inferior to any of the special operations units. Because of their ability to rescue a first class. Any adverse conditions, they have had the experience of the successful wrecker. However, the people of this group of iron and steel have missed. As a long-term service experience in the Coast Guard veteran Ben Randall (Kevin Costner), there have been such a nightmare experience - a maritime rescue mission, rescue mission under extremely harsh conditions completely failure, and unfortunately lost five comrades in arms, become the only survivors. This scene painful encounter Randall this life, never mind the pain. Since then, his life could not be as happy and calm. The cause of frustration, the family also will enter into a dilemma - the noisy life and his wife also came to an end. Out in order to allow Randall as soon as possible from the hardship, self-blame and even decadent state, the Coast Guard's boss decided to send him to the training of troops inside the base as a special coach, adjustment of status also can take advantage of his wealth of experience in the selection of more fresh elite. Ben Randall, however, non-mainstream approach to training has been some students certainly also face the challenge of some young people. Themselves swimming champion students fee Toru Jack (Ashton Kutcher) by virtue of that kind of proud of the gas is always competing with the old Randall. But in essence wanted to be the best sea rescue personnel fees Toru also often gave Randall a lot of confidence and power to return to life. Thus, the interpretation of a wonderful and moving inspirational story not too much of this stubborn impasse heroes and are not afraid of tigers in the friction and collision. Time about the rescue of life and death proved their strength and indomitable Yi Chi ... ◇ Aspect: this "theme" to shoot through fire and water, originally wanted to be celebrated in Kodiak Coast Guard resident near Kodiak Island real locations. But in the nearby Augustine volcano show when shooting extremely active, it seems that it should hurry to grab a lens-like. In order to avoid be subject to eruption of the volcano "harassment and attacks. The crew helpless south, moved to the Shreveport City, in northwest Louisiana, where most of the location shooting. In Shreveport port named Slack Industrial Park, built a huge blue screen and a large pool containing 750,000 gallons of water, it can create the giant waves in the ocean. Coupled model rescue aircraft and model ships are tossed at sea, the final performances of the actors are extremely rich, exciting drama of a "strong man to shake the waves" so staged. The two films starring Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher during the filming, is also extremely hard, soaked in water play completely personally pitched in to complete the drama occurred in the winter in order to create the story scene, often start in colder temperatures at night, whether it is sea water or fresh water, the two biggest names are not afraid to set an example for everyone in the crew. Volcanic baked cold blisters people, overwhelmed by the shooting of a fall, must have a great test of the two character actor. However, a more severe test yet to come. When the last scene of the movie, the film crew, not not come up with thick snow in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, to cope with the whole story as it develops. So, clever stage manager from the ice-making plants in Wisconsin and bought a full 60,000 tons of ice shipped with a large truck rushed to the shooting scene. Workers tube spray ice shavings to create a thick layer of snow scenes. Coast Guard flight base in the film appeared in the ice and snow. Appear as a background, the number of 75 rescue workers from the real Coast Guard. Off duty Coast Guard uniforms are not off the "occupation" has become a "lifeguard" extras. In addition, the film crew hired a private label production company counterfeit Alaska Kodiak Coast Guard badge making identical copies posted on many buildings in Elizabeth airport, borrowed from the local Coast Guard rescue equipment as props arranged in the scene. Guard crew flying in from the dealers that supply the Coast Guard uniform uniform, has become Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher and other costumes, this is true or otherwise, Elizabeth City into a Kodiak Island, Costner and Kutcher became a sea rescue workers fell from the sky. The ◇ Comments: the return of the man's last year, suffering from "gossip" the entanglement Kevin Costner finally found the feeling of then rely on the action and emotional drama double win. "Dances with Wolves" brilliant, "Robin Hood" chic, "JFK" brave, "water world" decadent, romantic lingering in the "Message in a bottle" and "unlimited world" experienced ... ... to let people see who had the tough guy half a one hundred of the back have a firm, courageous and confident feeling. However, time is getting, and want to reproduce more than ten years ago the brilliant it is not easy. Plain boy "Ashton Kutcher also appears to gradually change their own image in people's minds. Earlier wedding emergency "and" My boss's daughter, and last year's boys and girls with black and white "and" Meet hate early "can not escape the curse of" young love ", giving a total not yet mature, immature feeling, although that stirring "The Butterfly Effect" quite a novelty to people to see Kutcher slightly grow acting, but still can get out of love entangled with film heroine. The bitterness of Kula, follow Kevin Costner, predecessors of the action film together to enjoy the Coast Guard called the great opportunity to own in the film as soon as possible to mature. In Hollywood, do men, promising