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In Enemy Hands is a 2004 American submarine film directed by Tony Giglio and starring William H. Macy, Til Schweiger, Thomas Kretschmann, Scott Caan and Lauren Holly. The film follows an American submarine crew getting captured by a German submarine crew and taken prisoner aboard their U-boat.
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The movie begins with contemporary film footage of World War II as narration explains the situation. Germany has produced hundreds of U-boats to control the Atlantic shipping lanes and in 1942 wolfpacks sank over a thousand Allied ships, making real the possibility of Germany permanently conquering all of Europe. In 1943, Roosevelt and Churchill declared that the war against U-boats was their main priority and that new technology and a United States fully committed to the war was turning the tide in favor of the Allies.
In June 1943, submarine commander Lieutenant-Commander Randall Sullivan (Caan) is departing on a war cruise. Admiral Kentz (Berkeley) claims Sullivan's COB Nathan Travers (Macy) is a good man and Sullivan could learn from him. Travers' wife Rachel (Holly) makes him promise to come home safe. Two months later, they are aboard USS Swordfish (a fictional submarine based on the real USS Swordfish in World War II) repeatedly staging general quarters drills.
The XO of Swordfish, Teddy Goodman (Gregg), becomes increasingly sick and the doctor diagnoses a rash on his stomach as meningitis, an extremely contagious disease that can sometimes be fatal. Unknown to the crew, Sullivan has a rash on his arm.
