Hostile Waters Movie Review 1997

Based on Soviet accounts of an October 1986 incident that nearly set off a nuclear holocaust. A Russian and a U.S. sub play a game of cat-and-mouse 500 miles east of Bermuda. There's a collision and a fire aboard the Soviet sub threatens their cargo of thermonuclear missiles. Soviet captain Igor Britanov (Hauer) tries to control the situation while the U.S. skipper (Sheen) tries to figure out just what's going on.

Distribution

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Available on VHS
Running time 92 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Adventure Drama, True Stories, Submarines, Military: Foreign, Military: Navy

Screenplay

Troy Kennedy Martin

Cast

Rutger Hauer, Martin Sheen, Colm Feore, Rob Campbell, Harris Yulin, Max von Sydow, Regina Taylor, John Rothman

Cinematography

Alec Curtis

Director

David Drury

Music

David Ferguson

Producer

Tony Garnett, William Cran, BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), World Productions, HBO NYC Productions