Alive

"The triumph of the human spirit"

Jan 15 1993 R 2h 0m
Adventure, Biography, Drama

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.

Plot

In 1972, the Uruguayan rugby team is flying to Chile to play a game. However, the plane from the Uruguayan Air Force with 45 people crashes on the Andes Mountains and after the search party, they are considered dead. Two months after the crash, the sixteen survivors are finally rescued. Along the days, the starved survivors decide to eat flesh from the bodies of their comrades to survive.

Written by

Piers Paul Read, John Patrick Shanley

Directed by

Frank Marshall

Cast

Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Paramount, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Film Andes S.A., Touchstone Pictures

Languages

Español, English

Awards

1 win & 1 nomination total

Trailers
Alive - Trailer
Scores
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66,692
Average Rating
7.1 out of 10
Metascore
56
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