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The only U.S. Marshal assigned to Antarctica, Carrie Stetko will soon leave the harsh environment behind for good – in three days, the sun will set and the Amundsen-Scott Research Station will shut down for the long winter. When a body is discovered out on the open ice, Carrie's investigation into the continent's first homicide plunges her deep into a mystery that may cost her her own life.
2009 · Directed by Dominic Sena · 101 min · Action · Crime · Mystery · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 8 frames
Tagline
See Your Last Breath
Plot
In 1957, a Russian cargo plane is flying above Antarctica. In the cockpit, the two pilots conspire to kill three men sitting in the hold guarding a padlocked box. The copilot leaves his seat and begins to shoot the other men. They return fire, and the pilot is shot and incapacitated during the gunfight, causing a crash which kills everyone aboard.
In the modern era, newcomers arrive at the United States' Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica, while those scheduled to leave before the onset of winter are preparing to do so early because of an impending storm. Among those leaving is Deputy U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko, who has been working in Antarctica for two years after her partner in Miami betrayed and nearly killed her. She confides in the station's doctor, John "Doc" Fury, that she plans to resign after returning to the United States.
A pilot named Delfy reports a dead body and flies Stetko and Doc out to the remote Haworth Mesa to retrieve it. The dead man is Anton Weiss, one of a group of three scientists looking for meteorites. An autopsy performed by Doc finds stitching on a leg wound and evidence of murder by ice axe. Stetko considers sending the body to McMurdo Station to avoid spending the winter in Antarctica, but she instead continues the investigation herself. She receives a call from John Mooney, another of the three scientists, asking her to meet him at Vostok Station. She and Delfy fly to Vostok but cannot find him. Stetko discovers Mooney dying from a neck wound and is attacked by a black-clad man with an ice axe. She escapes but injures her hands, losing the wet skin of her fingers on the metal handle of a door and falling unconscious.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Carey Hayes, Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber, Chad Hayes
- Cinematography: Christopher Soos
- Edited by: Martin Hunter
- Music: John Frizzell
- Production design: Graham "Grace" Walker
- Produced by: Joel Silver, David Gambino, Susan Downey
Cast
- Kate Beckinsale as Carrie Stetko
- Gabriel Macht as Robert Pryce
- Tom Skerritt as Dr. John Fury
- Columbus Short as Delfy
- Shawn Doyle as Sam Murphy
- Alex O'Loughlin as Russell Haden
- Joel S. Keller as Jack
- Jesse Todd as Rubin
- Arthur Holden as McGuire
- Bashar Rahal as Russian Pilot
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Russian
- Studios: Dark Castle Entertainment, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Budget: $40,000,000
- Box office: $17,976,667
- Themes: airplane, detective, investigation, based on comic, corpse, stich
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