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Jake Huard wins a boxing match, then goes back to the house and the shipyard he shares with his father, who doubts he will amount to anything. Lieutenant Commander Burton brings word that Jake's application to the Naval Academy at Annapolis has been accepted despite his grades. His friends take him out to celebrate and introduce him to Ali. On his first day at the academy, Jake learns that Ali is a Midshipman 2nd Class and one of the instructors hazing his plebe class, along with Whitaker. The academic load drops him to the bottom of the class, and Midshipman Lieutenant Cole, who served as an enlisted Marine, declares he will run out any midshipman he judges unfit to be an officer. Jake rooms with Twins, Loo and Estrada.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Annapolis (2006)
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- The Department of the Navy and the Department of Defense refused to support the picture, judging that the script did not accurately portray the Academy or its methods of shaping midshipmen, and the producers were then denied further access to the Academy grounds and any other support.
- Denied access to the Annapolis Naval Academy, the production filmed instead in Philadelphia at Girard College and the decommissioned Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich.
- A similar film 23 years earlier, The Lords of Discipline, was also filmed in the UK because no military academy in the US permitted filming, its script likewise judged substantially unlike the actual institutes.
- The film grossed $17.5 million worldwide, taking $7.7 million in its opening weekend to finish fourth, then $3.4 million and $1.4 million in the following weekends.
