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Josh Hamilton

Bruce Ramsay

Ethan Hawke

Vincent Spano

John Newton

David Kriegel

Kevin Breznahan

Sam Behrens

Illeana Douglas

Jack Noseworthy

Christian J. Meoli

Jake Carpenter

Michael DeLorenzo

José Zúñiga

Danny Nucci

David Cubitt

Gian DiDonna

John Cassini

Michael Woolson

Chad Willett

Richard Ian Cox

Gordon Currie

Ele Keats

Josh Lucas

Silvio Pollio

Nuno Antunes

Michael Tayles

Steven Shayler

Jason Gaffney

Jerry Wasserman

Michael Sicoly

Diana Barrington

Jan D'Arcy

Frank Pellegrino

Seth Arnett

Aurelio Dinunzio

Fiona Roeske

Tony Morelli

Pat Romano

John Malkovich

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Michael Kahn

James Newton Howard

Peter James

Kathleen Kennedy

Valorie Massalas

Tedd Kuchera

John Patrick Shanley

William Goldenberg

Norman Reynolds

Fred Hole

Robert Watts

J.J. Makaro

Bruce Cohen

Mike Fenton

Piers Paul Read

Melissa R. Stubbs

Nick Dudman

Kevin O'Connell

Jennifer L. Parsons

Willy Allen

Hilda Hodges

Linda Gill

Brian Smrz

Dan Perri

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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.

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