Taglines: They were ordinary young men driven to the very limits of human endurance.
Alive movie storyline. 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.
Alive is a 1993 American biographical survival drama film based upon Piers Paul Read’s 1974 book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, which details the story of a Uruguayan rugby team who were involved in the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed into the Andes mountains on Friday, October 13, 1972.
The film was directed by Frank Marshall and narrated by John Malkovich.[3] One of the survivors, Nando Parrado (portrayed by Ethan Hawke in the film), served as the technical advisor for the film. The film also starred Vincent Spano and Josh Hamilton.
Alive (1993)
Directed by: Frank Marshall
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton, Bruce Ramsay, John Newton, David Kriegel, Kevin Breznahan, Sam Behrens, Illeana Douglas, Jack Noseworthy
Screenplay by: John Patrick Shanley
Production Design by: Norman Reynolds
Cinematography by: Peter James
Film Editing by: William Goldenberg, Michael Kahn
Costume Design by: Jennifer L. Parsons
Set Decoration by: Tedd Kuchera
Art Direction by: Fred Hole
Music by: James Newton Howard
MPAA Rating: R for crash scenes too intense for unaccompanied children.
Distributed by: uena Vista Pictures (United States), United International Pictures (Worldwide)
Release Date: January 15, 1993
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