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Alive

- The triumph of the human spirit

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.

Release Date : 1993-01-15

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Touchstone PicturesThe Kennedy/Marshall CompanyParamount Pictures

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles : Alive

Cast

Character Name : Roberto Canessa

Original Name : Josh Hamilton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Carlitos Páez

Original Name : Bruce Ramsay

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nando Parrado

Original Name : Ethan Hawke

Gender : Male

Character Name : Antonio Balbi

Original Name : Vincent Spano

Gender : Male

Character Name : Antonio Vizintín

Original Name : John Newton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gustavo Zerbino

Original Name : David Kriegel

Gender : Male

Character Name : Roy Harley

Original Name : Kevin Breznahan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Javier Methol

Original Name : Sam Behrens

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lilliana Methol

Original Name : Illeana Douglas

Gender : Female

Character Name : Bobby François

Original Name : Jack Noseworthy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Federico Aranda

Original Name : Christian J. Meoli

Gender : Male

Character Name : Alberto Artuna

Original Name : Jake Carpenter

Gender : Male

Character Name : Rafael Cano

Original Name : Michael DeLorenzo

Gender : Male

Character Name : Fraga

Original Name : José Zúñiga

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hugo Díaz

Original Name : Danny Nucci

Gender : Male

Character Name : Fito Strauch

Original Name : David Cubitt

Gender : Male

Character Name : Eduardo Strauch

Original Name : Gian DiDonna

Gender : Male

Character Name : Daniel Fernández

Original Name : John Cassini

Gender : Male

Character Name : Juan Martino

Original Name : Michael Woolson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pablo Montero

Original Name : Chad Willett

Gender : Male

Character Name : Moncho Sabella

Original Name : Richard Ian Cox

Gender : Male

Character Name : Coche Inciarte

Original Name : Gordon Currie

Gender : Male

Character Name : Susana Parrado

Original Name : Ele Keats

Gender : Female

Character Name : Felipe Restano

Original Name : Josh Lucas

Gender : Male

Character Name : Alex Morales

Original Name : Silvio Pollio

Gender : Male

Character Name : Álvaro Mangino

Original Name : Nuno Antunes

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pancho Delgado

Original Name : Michael Tayles

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pedro Algorta

Original Name : Steven Shayler

Gender : Male

Character Name : Víctor Bolarich

Original Name : Jason Gaffney

Gender : Male

Character Name : Co-Pilot

Original Name : Jerry Wasserman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pilot Julio César Ferradas

Original Name : Michael Sicoly

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Alfonsín

Original Name : Diana Barrington

Gender : Female

Character Name : Eugenia Parrado

Original Name : Jan D'Arcy

Gender : Female

Character Name : Steward

Original Name : Frank Pellegrino

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tomás Alonso

Original Name : Seth Arnett

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dr. Solana

Original Name : Aurelio Dinunzio

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Solana

Original Name : Fiona Roeske

Gender : Female

Character Name : Martínez, the Navigator

Original Name : Tony Morelli

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jorge Armas

Original Name : Pat Romano

Gender : Male

Character Name : Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)

Original Name : John Malkovich

Gender : Male

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2022-06-25

A crowd of boisterous rugby players get a bit of a shock when the plane they are travelling on has an argument with a mountain top in the Andes, and next thing they know they are sheltering in what is left of their aircraft high in the snow-capped terrain with many dead around them and with very little food. Survival is the first order of the day, before rescuers surely come, but does anyone have the faintest idea where they actually are? With the low cloud cover would the wreckage be spotted anyway? What now ensues is a better than average survival movie, with Ethan Hawke (Parrado) and Vincent Spano (Balbi) on quite good form trying to motivate the assembled survivors. Their attempts to ration wine and chocolate soon prove fruitless, and morals and ethics are challenged across this largely god-fearing group as they begin to realise that deliverance from the middle of this avalanche prone country is unlikely, and they must turn to the more urgent needs of finding food... Will they resort to cannibalism? It's based on a true story, which though adding legitimacy, does rob the film of any real sense of jeopardy as clearly someone had to survive to tell us this story, but the route of their eventual salvation demonstrates well the difficulties they faced and the tests to their humanity and faith that they must address. It's not without the odd bit of dark humour and the snowscape cinematography contrasts well with the claustrophobic imagery as the sixteen survivors huddle together in the shell of their aeroplane for warmth and shelter. It is too long with some of the scenarios recycling themselves once or twice, but there is a genuine sense of peril from Frank Marshall that makes you realise just how pointless those pre-take off safety briefings are on an aircraft.