The Incomparable

782: In Russia, Truck Stops You — K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)

Sep 5, 2025·1h 19m

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Jason Snell
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Erika Ensign·Philip Michaels·Steven Schapansky·Brian Warren·Tony Sindelar

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We dive beneath the sea again with “K-19: The Widowmaker,” in which Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson star as… wait a second… Soviet naval officers? It’s a film about a horrible nuclear accident assembled from pieces of other submarine movies, as well as possibly several “Star Trek” movies, and we can’t decide if the screenplay or the casting is more of a problem. But finally we’ll get to the bottom of the real question: if most of the crewmen aren’t married, can K-19 really be a widowmaker?