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2002
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Synopsis
Fate has found its hero.
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
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Cast
Harrison Ford Liam Neeson Peter Sarsgaard Joss Ackland John Shrapnel Donald Sumpter Tim Woodward Steve Nicolson George Anton James Francis Ginty Lex Shrapnel Ingvar E. Sigurðsson Sam Spruell Sam Redford Peter Stebbings Roman Podhora Shaun Benson Dmitry Chepovetsky Christopher Redman Tygh Runyan Peter Graham Shawn Mathieson Jacob Pitts Christopher Routh Lubomir Mykytiuk Michael Gladis Christian Camargo Ravil Isyanov Kristen Holden-Ried Show All…
DirectorDirector
Kathryn Bigelow
ProducersProducers
Matthias Deyle Edward S. Feldman Winship Cook Kathryn Bigelow Mark Wolfe Mary Montiforte Steven-Charles Jaffe Brent O'Connor Christine Whitaker Basil Iwanyk Steve Danton Sigurjón Sighvatsson
WriterWriter
Christopher Kyle
StoryStory
Louis Nowra
CastingCasting
Ross Clydesdale Mary Selway Mali Finn
EditorEditor
Walter Murch
CinematographyCinematography
Jeff Cronenweth
Assistant DirectorAsst. Director
Steve Danton
Executive ProducersExec. Producers
Moritz Borman Harrison Ford Guy East Nigel Sinclair
Production DesignProduction Design
Karl Júlíusson Michael Novotny
Art DirectionArt Direction
William Ladd Skinner Angela Murphy Arvinder Greywal
Set DecorationSet Decoration
Carol Lavallee Dan Wladyka Ian Greig
StuntsStunts
J.J. Makaro Mickey Giacomazzi Alison Reid
ComposerComposer
Klaus Badelt
SoundSound
Pat Jackson
Costume DesignCostume Design
Marit Allen
MakeupMakeup
Jordan Samuel Michael Laudati Christina Smith Cindy e Smith-McGuire Joyce Wold
HairstylingHairstyling
Michael Kriston David R. Beecroft
Studios
Intermedia Palomar Pictures First Light K-19 Film Production National Geographic Films Studio Trite
Countries
Canada Germany Russia UK USA
Language
English
Alternative Titles
K-19 - The Widowmaker, K 19, K-19 - Le piège des profondeurs, K-19, Υποβρύχιο Κ-19: Ο Φονιάς, K-19:寡妇制造者, K-19 – Showdown in der Tiefe, K-19 위도우메이커, K-19։ The Widowmaker, K-19 - Showdown in der Tiefe, Tehlikeli Saatler, K-19: O Fazedor de Viúvas, K-19 : Le Piège des profondeurs, К-19, K-19: Stroj na smrt, Atomcsapda, קיי-19, K-19: 위도우메이커, K19, K-19: Submarinul ucigaş, ลึกมฤตยู นิวเคลียร์ล้างโลก, 哈里遜福特K19, K-19: Tàu Ngầm Tử Thần, Tajna podmornice K-19, K-19: Stroj na smrť, ک.19 - زیردریایی قاتل, 轟天潛艦K-19, K-19 : Terreur sous la mer
Genres
War Mystery History Thriller Drama
Themes
War and historical adventure Politics and human rights Disastrous voyages and heroic survival Political drama, patriotism, and war Dangerous technology and the apocalypse Bravery in War Riveting political and presidential drama Show All…
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Theatrical
19 Jul 2002
- Brazil12
- USAPG-13
04 Sep 2002
- Germany12
13 Sep 2002
- GreecePG
- SpainAPTA
18 Sep 2002
- FranceU
27 Sep 2002
- Denmark11
03 Oct 2002
- South Korea12
25 Oct 2002
- UK12A
07 Nov 2002
- AustraliaM
15 Nov 2002
- Italy
21 Nov 2002
- Czechia12+
14 Dec 2002
- Japan
03 Jan 2003
- PortugalM/12
Digital
29 Aug 2002
- Switzerland18
25 Oct 2002
- Ireland12
28 Oct 2017
- France
01 Jun 2022
- France12
Physical
15 May 2003
- France
Releases by Country
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Australia
07 Nov 2002
- TheatricalM
Brazil
19 Jul 2002
- Theatrical12
Czechia
21 Nov 2002
- Theatrical12+
Denmark
27 Sep 2002
- Theatrical11
France
18 Sep 2002
- TheatricalU
15 May 2003
- PhysicalDVD
28 Oct 2017
- DigitalVOD
01 Jun 2022
- Digital12Netflix
Germany
04 Sep 2002
- Theatrical12
Greece
13 Sep 2002
- TheatricalPG
Ireland
25 Oct 2002
- Digital12
Italy
15 Nov 2002
- Theatrical
Japan
14 Dec 2002
- Theatrical
Portugal
03 Jan 2003
- TheatricalM/12
South Korea
03 Oct 2002
- Theatrical12
Spain
13 Sep 2002
- TheatricalAPTA
Switzerland
29 Aug 2002
- Digital18
UK
25 Oct 2002
- Theatrical12A
USA
19 Jul 2002
- TheatricalPG-13
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Review by David Sims ★★½ 4
Kathryn Bigelow: "With Point Break, I directed the most fun movie ever made. So why not try to direct...the least fun movie ever made?"
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Review by Matt Singer ★★★½
If you see a guy wandering the streets of Brooklyn randomly shouting things like "SURFACE THE BOAT!" in a terrible Russian accent, it's not Harrison Ford, it's me -- I just watched K-19: THE WIDOWMAKER.
I guess it might *also* be Harrison Ford; not sure if he's in Brooklyn this weekend. But I'm out here too.
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Review by Mike Lawson ★★ 4
Ford: Do we have to do accents in EVERY scene?
Bigelow: I mean...it'd be nice.
Ford: Does it have to be the SAME accent each time?
Bigelow: *sigh*
Neeson: Does it have to be Russian?
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Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★
Action! - Female 4 Front: The Bigelow's Kinetic Alphas
Growing up, I remember hearing about this movie and seeing the poster. In fact, I recall reading the movie lists in the newspaper and continuously running across this film in one of those rubbish memories that one manages to keep in for some reason. But I also remember the negative response it received, which kept me from giving it a chance until now.
And, after watching it, I must admit that I'm glad that it's not quite as bad as I had been led to expect. In many ways, it seems like the film with a more conventional directorial style, but Bigelow does manage to interject her flair from time to…
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Review by 📀 Cammmalot 📀 ★★★
Cinematic Time Capsule2002 Marathon - Film #101
You sank my blockbuster!
”This is the Captain. We’ve had a malfunction…”
Somewhere in these waters is a depressingly tense nuclear sub thriller that’s piloted by seaworthy actors as they face the insurmountable odds of faulty equipment, inexperienced men and a Harrison Ford accent that’s phonier than a Dolce & Gabbana sidewalk sale.
But on the plus side this film taught me that red wine can help stave off radiation sickness. So if you’ll excuse me, I’m feeling compelled to go partake in an abundance of preventive medicine….
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”We deliver or we drown”
Cinematic Time Capsule - 2002 RankedDas Boots! - A Collection of Submarine Films
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Review by Juju Hot Takes 🇨🇦 🇻🇳 ★★ 2
The heroic propaganda worked so perfectly, guys, I'm a communist now yayyyyyyy 🥳 Nah I'm just kidding, Oliver Stone can be proud of the biggest ass munching for Mother Russia and I'm really surprised he didn't produce this project. The bromance between Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson is so cute that helped me endure 2h30 of this forcing to screw Putin's feet.
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Review by MAGE ★★★★ 11
Jesus Christ. What stunning nightmares mankind is capable of, nay, hellbent in disposition toward visiting upon ourselves. This is profoundly harrowing business, all the more so for being a true story, save for some heightened interpersonal drama added to juice the runtime. Not to mention to give Harry Ford and Neesons some barking fireworks to dig into.
I was a little worried when I first heard their weak-sauce Russian accents, but I settled into it just fine. Going with them only occasionally hitting their R’s a little hard was the right path to take, as anything more “realistic” would have been doubly as distracting. In any case, they work damn well together onscreen, to the point I’m a tad bit…
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Review by Blake Bergman "Various Spaghetti" ★★★★
"K-19: The Widowmaker" is a 2002 historical military thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Being a film that circulates on the involvement of a submarine, the film is a high-pressure slow burn of survival, an exercise that each incremental second of things count to the utmost precise measure. Based on true to life events that occurred in 1961, the submarine was riddled with an assortment of rushed errors counting a struggle of leadership on board the craft. Guided by U.S.S.R.'s mentality to further their supremacy at sea in a quicker matter, the lives on board the sub were more or less discerned as expendable in comparison to keeping Russian's dignity in top form. With the original officer in charge (who…
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Review by Joe ★★★ 1
Hums along nicely enough but feels weirdly - and you'll excuse the grim pun here I hope - undercooked before the nuclear reactor on board breaks down and people start getting radiation poisoning. Then this actually becomes pretty suspenseful and even terrifying, before what I assume is the anticlimax of the real story brings it to an end with a confused whimper rather than a bang - you can kind of sense Bigelow and co. not knowing what to do with the ending real life gave them. Given that, kind of weird to think that she has continued making movies "based on real events" so doggedly since then, I'd love for her to go back to making vampire and bank robber movies. Hey - vampire bank robbers! Anybody have Katherine Bigelow's contact info?
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Review by Cormac 👑 ★★★ 12
Anyone who was surprised by the whole Liam Neeson controversy last year obviously never saw K-19: The Widowmaker, because his sorry excuse for a Russian accent is a hate crime if I ever saw one. As an Irishman, it’s our duty to root for Neeson. My first words out the womb were actually the iconic Taken monologue, but there’s no defending him here.
Yet somehow Harrussian Ford is trying his hardest to out-offend him, as if they’re having a competition to see who can become Putin’s worst-sworn enemy. It’s a complete distraction that made focusing on anything else impossible, which in retrospect might’ve been for the best, because this things dead in the water anyway.
Anyone who knows me knows…
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Review by ScreeningNotes ★★
I think K-19 is supposed to read as the tragedy of fighting for an ignoble cause against the heroism of duty, but to me it kinda reads as the tragedy of duty? The movie seems to think that military service is generally good, it just happens to be bad here in this instance because its in service of something that's bad (communism, propaganda), but it also unintentionally function as a critique of that idea of duty itself, as an argument to why military service is bad because it's always in service of an unseen evil (militarism, imperialism). Like, maybe I'm projecting here, but there are two parallel thematic lines here, and I think the movie doesn't believe that they intersect,…
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Review by Sudhakar Kumar ★★★
It’s an entertaining and thrilling -- if little overlong -- ride.
Bigelow knows how to draw the audience in and put us on the edge of our seats without ever relying on special effects and using only the minimal background.
Klaus Badelt’s bombastic score undergirds the enormity of the stakes, contrasting the solemn nationalism of our heroes with the innate tragedy of their situation. Harrison Ford gives one of his best performances as Vostrikov.
K-19 provides a fascinating and unusual glimpse of a hitherto untold story, a refreshingly human depiction of the Soviet officer class on the good old sub flick.
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