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Alive
The amazing true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold.
1993 · Directed by Frank Marshall · 127 min · Adventure · Drama · History · 8 frames
Tagline
The triumph of the human spirit.
Crew
- Screenplay: John Patrick Shanley
- Cinematography: Peter James
- Edited by: Michael Kahn, William Goldenberg
- Music: James Newton Howard
- Production design: Norman Reynolds
- Produced by: Kathleen Kennedy, Robert Watts
Cast
- Josh Hamilton as Roberto Canessa
- Bruce Ramsay as Carlitos Páez
- Ethan Hawke as Nando Parrado
- Vincent Spano as Antonio Balbi
- John Newton as Antonio Vizintín
- David Kriegel as Gustavo Zerbino
- Kevin Breznahan as Roy Harley
- Sam Behrens as Javier Methol
- Illeana Douglas as Lilliana Methol
- Jack Noseworthy as Bobby François
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Touchstone Pictures, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Paramount Pictures
- Budget: $32,000,000
- Box office: $36,700,000
- Themes: airplane wreck, based on true story, rugby, survival, stranded, airplane crash, freezing, disaster movie, andes mountains, frostbite
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