Alive (1993)

R01/15/1993Adventure, Drama, History2h 7m
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The triumph of the human spirit

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

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    Josh Hamilton

    Roberto Canessa

  2. Cast 1

    Bruce Ramsay

    Carlitos Páez

  3. Cast 1

    Ethan Hawke

    Nando Parrado

  4. Cast 1

    Vincent Spano

    Antonio Balbi

  5. Cast 1

    John Newton

    Antonio Vizintín

  6. Cast 1

    David Kriegel

    Gustavo Zerbino

  7. Cast 1

    Kevin Breznahan

    Roy Harley

  8. Cast 1

    Sam Behrens

    Javier Methol

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    Illeana Douglas

    Lilliana Methol

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 Vincen...