U-571 (film)

U-571
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jonathan Mostow
Screenplay by	Jonathan Mostow Sam Montgomery David Ayer
Story by	Jonathan Mostow
Produced by	Dino De Laurentiis Martha De Laurentiis
Starring	Matthew McConaughey Bill Paxton Harvey Keitel Jon Bon Jovi Jake Weber Erik Palladino Matthew Settle David Keith Thomas Kretschmann
Cinematography	Oliver Wood
Edited by	Wayne Wahrman
Music by	Richard Marvin
Production companies	Dino De Laurentiis Company Canal+ Image
Distributed by	Universal Pictures (United States) Summit Entertainment (International)[1]
Release date	April 21, 2000 (2000-04-21)
Running time	116 minutes
Countries	United States France
Languages	English German
Budget	$62 million
Box office	$127 million

U-571 is a 2000 submarine film directed by Jonathan Mostow from a screenplay he co-wrote with Sam Montgomery and David Ayer. The film stars Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Jon Bon Jovi, Jake Weber and Matthew Settle. The film follows a World War II German submarine boarded by American submariners to capture her Enigma cipher machine.

Although the film was financially successful and received generally positive reviews from critics,^[2][3] winning the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing, the fictitious plot attracted substantial criticism. British sailors from HMS Bulldog captured the first naval Enigma machine from U-110 in the North Atlantic in May 1941, seven months before the United States entered the war and three years before the US Navy captured U-505 and its Enigma machine.^[4] Anger over the film’s inaccuracies reached the House of Commons, where the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, called the film an "affront" to British sailors.^[5]