All war movie fans will love this. Some parts are violent and a LITTLE graphic, however, not nearly as much as made out to be. A mature 13 year-old would probably be able to handle this. fourteen and up would be a very appropriate age for this movie. It really shows what some parts of sub warfare are like.
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K-19: The Widowmaker
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Dark, graphic, pretentious, inflated.
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for Ages 15 and Under
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About K-19: The Widowmaker
Parents need to know that this movie is at the farthest edges of the PG-13 rating, with very graphic and tragic scenes and intense peril. Major characters die. There is drinking (some tipsiness) and smoking. There are also some bare bottoms.
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Families Can Talk About
- Families can talk about many of the choices faced by characters in this movie, including those who knowingly sacrificed their lives or who ordered others to sacrifice theirs -- for their country and for their colleagues. The men on the sub watch propaganda movies about the Klu Klux Klan and other problems in the U.S. How do we know that what we hear about other countries is a fair and accurate picture? They should talk about how people can strike the right balance between insisting on a high standard of performance and making sure they have enough information to make the right decisions. U.S. examples like the Challenger disaster and the corporate corruption of 2002 raise these issues. Families might also want to look into some of the issues raised by the use of nuclear power and the problems of disposing of all of the hardware from the Cold War that gave rise to the acronym MAD for "mutually assured destruction."
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