K-19: The Widowmaker
DramaHistoryThrillerMysteryWar
6.54/10
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|138 min
Release Date: 2002-07-19
Overview - When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
Production Companies
Intermedia FilmsPalomar PicturesFirst LightIMF Internationale Medien und Film 2 & ProduktionsK-19 Film ProductionNational Geographic Films
User Reviews
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tmdb28039023
6/10
K-19: The Widowmaker is the Russian answer to Run Silent, Run Deep/Crimson Tide, except that it's about as Russian as Michael Apted’s Gorky Park – still, not bad company to be in at all. Like Gorky Park, which had two late greats in Will Hurt and Brian Dennehy, K-19 gravitates around two solid performers: Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson in the Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster/Gene Hackman and Denz...
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CinemaSerf
6/10
A rather clunky cold-war maritime thriller that manages to mix plausible science with shallow propaganda in a rather cack-handed fashion - and a (mis)casting that gives the film the same sinking feeling that the submarine must have felt when it first put to sea. It's a synch that the 2-kopeck systems aboard this state of the art Russian boat "K-19" are going to cause the maiden voyage to be riddle...
