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| Original Title |
K-19: The Widowmaker |
| Director |
Kathryn Bigelow |
| Genre |
Drama, Thriller |
| Released |
2002-07-19 |
| MPAA Rating |
Rated PG-13 for disturbing images. |
| Rated |
6.7 |
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| The story of USSR's first nuclear ballistic submarine, which suffered a malfunction in its nuclear reactor on its maiden voyage in the North Atlantic in 1961. The submarine's crew, led by the unyielding Captain Alexi Vostrikov, races against time to prevent a Chernobyl-like nuclear disaster which threatens not only the lives of his crew, but has the potential to ignite a world war between the super powers. |
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| Sam Spruell as Dmitri , Peter Stebbings as Kuryshev , Christian Camargo as Pavel , Roman Podhora as Lapinsh , Sam Redford as Vasily , Steve Nicolson as Demichev , Liam Neeson as Mikhail Polenin , Ravil Issyanov as Suslov (as Ravil Isyanov) , Tim Woodward as Partonov , Lex Shrapnel as Kornilov , Shaun Benson as Leonid , Kristen Holden-Reid as Anton , Dmitry Chepovetsky as Sergei , Christopher Redman as Kiklidze , Tygh Runyan as Maxim |
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"Sea trials will begin as scheduled. We deliver, or we drown." <Ford, as captain>
A story about a submarine so flawed, during construction it was named "the
Widowmaker." I was a teenager in 1961, the time period for this movie,
"K-19, Widowmaker." I recall the cold war posturing by the USA and the
Soviet Union, and this movie dramatizes the fate of the newest Soviet
nuclear submarine. Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson star as the Captain and his
first mate, the former Captain. Ford plays a taskmaster who won't let up,
won't quit having is new crew practice emergency drills, even when some of
them become injured, because he suspects their fate will depend on how well
the crew will respond when a crisis really arises. A bit slow in the middle,
still, a good movie.
SPOILERS follow, please read no further.
After breaking through the Arctic ice, and a successful test missle launch,
the sub and crew are assigned to patrol the Atlantic east of the NY and DC
areas. A leak develops in the nuclear reactor section, cooling is lost to
one reactor, and if not arrested would heat to the point of destroying the
sub, killing all aboard, and perhaps detonation of nuclear weapons aboard. A
fix is planned, but requires entering the reactor chamber without proper
radiation clothing, 10 minutes per person, radiation burns and sickness,
vomiting, fix works but sub crippled, deadly radiation spreading aboard sub,
mutiny is attempted, USA ship offers help, rejected, a Russian sub shows up,
defied Moscow orders and get men off ship, court martial, aquitted, he and
crew sworn to secrecy, until the 1989 fall of the Communistic regime in the
USSR, when the whole crew gathered to honor the dead, and to toast the
Captain.
Good movie, especially for those of us who lived through the period.
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