K-19: The Widowmaker
by Kathryn Bigelow
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Actor: Christian Camargo, Harrison Ford, Peter Stebbings, Roman Podhora, Sam SpruellDirector: Kathryn Bigelow
Producer: Basil Iwanyk
Producer: Brent O'Connor
Producer: Christine Whitaker
Producer: Dieter Nobbe
Producer: Edward S. Feldman
Writer: Christopher Kyle
Writer: Louis Nowra
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); Russian (Original Language)
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 138 minutes
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: New Films International
Movie Reviews of K-19: The Widowmaker
Movie Review: K-19: The Widowmaker
Summary: 5 Stars
I have seen this movie last night and I am still under a profound impression this film left on me. I think that this is a definetely the best U-boat drama that makes you think about and appreciate the price that was paid for us to enjoy our peaceful life. This is a real film about the real people that lived and died and became heroes. I think that this is the best performance of Harrison Ford I have seen so far. I hope there will be more movies like this in the future.
Summary of K-19: The Widowmaker
Based on an incident that was officially suppressed for 28 years, K-19: The Widowmaker is a fine addition to the "sub-genre" of submarine thrillers. The first major American film about Russian cold war heroes, it re-creates the nightmare endured in 1961 by the crew of the Soviet nuclear submarine K-19, when an exposed reactor core nearly resulted in a nuclear catastrophe. Several crewmen died, and K-19's captain (played by Harrison Ford) had to assert his command when near-mutiny favored his executive officer (Liam Neeson). This escalating tension gives the film its potent dramatic thrust, and both Ford and Neeson deliver intense performances while director Kathryn Bigelow (Near Dark, Strange Days) ably controls a sub full of seething testosterone. It's not as viscerally thrilling as the classic Das Boot or U-571, and some K-19 survivors protested the inclusion of inauthentic drinking scenes, but the movie benefits from grand-scale production values, seamless computer graphics, and a compelling real-life twist. --Jeff ShannonSimilar DVD Movies
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