Alive

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Alive

R

1993

2h 7m

Drama

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Stranded after a plane crash in the Andes mountains, individual members of Uruguay's rugby team respond differently. Group leader Nando (Ethan Hawke) tries to keep everyone's spirits up; medical student Roberto (Josh Hamilton) diligently treats cases of frostbite and gangrene; loose cannon Antonio (Vincent Spano) gradually loses his composure. Once all available foodstuffs run out, the group faces a terrible dilemma: eat one or more of their deceased teammates, or die.

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David Denby

New York Magazine/Vulture

12/31/2019

Not every good story needs to be made into a movie.

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David Ansen

Newsweek

05/29/2018

Marshall is a good technician, but there's no sense of artistic adventure in his sometimes exciting, sometimes draggy movie. He's content to scratch the surface of a great and harrowing story.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

01/01/2000

2.5/4

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.

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Joe Lipsett

Murder Made Fiction Podcast - Bloody Disgusting

02/11/2025

3/5

A traumatizing but ultimately uplifting story about the human spirit. 1993 means that the cast is uniformly white (and a little generic), but the powerful elements of the real life story, including the crash, the avalanche, and the trek out, all work

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

03/01/2024

3/4

...an overlong yet mostly satisfying true-life tale...

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Jenn Adams

Bloody Disgusting

02/18/2023

A

Usually classified as a drama, Alive is an authentic recreation of this harrowing ordeal and one of the best examples of true survival horror ever committed to film.

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mohammed M.

@9mr_0 Jan 24

الفلم بشكل عام حلو . القصة ‏عن مأساه إنسانية واقعية و هذا الي خلى المخرج يعتمد على الماساة و تعاطف المشاهد و ترك العمق الدرامي للقصة . لان القصة ضعيفة دراميا و انت كمخرج اذا تريد تتناول حادثة وقعت فعليا عليك ان تاخذ بعين النظر جوانب اخرى لهذه الحادثة ليس فقط انها ماساة ويجب التعاطف معها . اداء الممثلين كان جيد و واضحة روح الفريق و الكيمياء بين عضاء الطاقم كانهم فريق لكن المخرج ركز على شخصيات محدده و خلى الباقين كانهم كومبارس وليسوا جزء من ماساة حقيقية . ما فشلوا فية هم و المخرج هو إظهار الجانب النفسي للشخصيات الفلم فية تحولات و قرارات ليست بالسهلة المخرج جعلها بغاية السهوله اضافة الفلم يتحدث عن حادثة ماسواية امتدت لفترة لم نلاحظ اي تغير على الشخصيات سواء كان جسدي او نفسي. التصوير كان ممتاز و محسوب بشكل جيد جعلني كمشاهد اشعر يشعر بالقصة اكثر. الموسيقى كانت جيدة و لم اشعر بالانزعاج منها . الفلم حلو في تصوير تجربة البقاء على قيد الحياة و النجاة لكن يفتقد للعمق الدرامي المخرج تناول الشخصيات بشكل سطحي كان من الممكن ان يغوص اكثر في الجوانب النفسية للشخصيات الفلم كان من الممكن ان يظهرة بواقعية اكثر كان من الممكن ان يعطي مساحة للشخصيات ويركز على شخصيات اكثر في الفلم .

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grain j

@RT65328220 Aug 20

The movie gets kind of boring halfway through and some dialogue seems out of place regarding the situation the characters are in, but other than that I think the acting is decent and the movie is ok

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Christian K

@ckacar Jul 1

Solid, formulaic survival story with not much I'll remember that stood out.

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Tim M

@tgmacman May 5

Though without the filmmaking finesse to do its incredible story of survival complete justice, Alive proves suitably stirring all the same.

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Wayne J

@RT09563821 03/16/2025

Amazing story of survival and a very entertaining movie. Not sure why all the low ratings. It’s a must see!

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John H

@RT44490115 04/21/2024

Very good movie on the Uruguay crash. A bit Hollywood but still a good film of a unreal situation

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Synopsis

Stranded after a plane crash in the Andes mountains, individual members of Uruguay's rugby team respond differently. Group leader Nando (Ethan Hawke) tries to keep everyone's spirits up; medical student Roberto (Josh Hamilton) diligently treats cases of frostbite and gangrene; loose cannon Antonio (Vincent Spano) gradually loses his composure. Once all available foodstuffs run out, the group faces a terrible dilemma: eat one or more of their deceased teammates, or die.

Director: Frank Marshall
Producer: Robert Watts, Kathleen Kennedy
Screenwriter: John Patrick Shanley, Piers Paul Read
Production Co: Touchstone Pictures
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $36.3M
Runtime: 2h 7m
Sound Mix: Surround, Stereo

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