| | | They were ordinary young men driven to the very limits of human endurance.
Features: DVD, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital Stereo, Spanish, Dubbed
Witness Alive, the thrilling true-life adventure of challenge and survival! In this action-packed hit, a team of tough rugby players survive a plane crash deep in the desolate, snow-covered Andes. Stranded there, they must overcome incredible odds to stay alive! See for yourself the unforgettable story of ordinary young men who find courage in the face of disaster and test the very limits of human endurance! It's an astonishing death-defying triumph that will both entertain ... and inspire you!
"...impressive..." James Berardinelli's ReelViews
Editor's Note
The true-life adventure of a Uruguayan team of rugby players who survive a plane crash in the desolate Andes Mountains in 1972. For 10 weeks they struggled against impossible odds and freezing temperatures to stay alive. See also the documentary ALIVE: 20 YEARS LATER.
Plot Summary
In October 1972, a plane chartered by the Uruguayan rugby team crashed in to the snow-covered Andes. Many passengers were killed on contact, but several people survived. They only had rations for a short time. When they learned through their transistor radio that the search effort for their plane had been aborted, two team members tried to cross the Andes in search of civilization. A young medical student warned them that if they wanted to survive until help arrived they must eat the flesh of their dead compatriots. When the trekkers who succeeded in reaching Chile returned with help some time later, 16 had been kept alive through cannibalism, and 29 had died from the accident, the avalanche, and the cruelty of the weather.
| Features | English Dolby Surround | | Spanish Dolby Surround | | Introductions By Director Frank Marshall | | Alive: Twenty Years Later | | Return To The Andes |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Buena Vista |
| Release Date: 11/11/2003 |
| Running Time: 127 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1992 | | Catalog ID: 27113 | | UPC: 00786936190267 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
MTV Award (1993) | | | Nominee, Best Action Sequence |
| Memorable Quotes| "It's like communion -- from their death, we live." ----A Survivor in "Alive" |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...A remarkable true-life adventure that taps dark emotions....ALIVE draws considerable power from staying more human than heroic..." 02/04/1993 p.75Variety
"...Well-crafted....One has to admire the [performances] Marshall elicits from his largely unknown cast..." 01/11/1993 Chicago Sun-Times
"...The location photography is impressive, the scenery is awesome, the re-enactment of the air crash is terrifying and uses convincing special effects..." 01/15/1993 p.40 Entertainment Weekly
"...It features one of the scariest plane crashes of all time..." 1/219/2003 p.60 Chicago Sun-Times 6 of 10
Alive is a movie that has taken a long time to come to the screen. The Andes plane went down in the early 1970s. Novelist Piers Paul Read wrote a book about the experience, which was optioned for the movies, but then a 1976 Mexican quickie named Survive! was dubbed into English and upstaged a more elaborate production. Now the adventure has been filmed by Frank Marshall (Arachnophobia), a veteran associate of Steven Spielberg, and given a first-rate cast, including Ethan Hawke and Vincent Spano. The location photography is impressive, the scenery is awesome, the re-enactment of the air crash is terrifying and uses convincing special effects. We care about the characters while we watch the movie. But at the end it all seems elusive. The movie characters complete their dreadful ordeal, but somehow, walking out, we feel the real Andes survivors would not quite recognize themselves. - Roger Ebert
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