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Alive (1993) | User Rating
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Release Date
• USA: Jan 15, 1993
DVD Release Date
• R1: Oct 8, 2002
• R2: 18 Mar 2002
Budget $32,000,000
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
2 hours, 7 minutes
Country USA
Studio Buena Vista
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Other Titles
• Alive
• Alive: The Miracle of the Andes
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Genre: Action, Thriller, Adventure, Drama, Cannibals, Disaster, Suspense, Escape, True Story, Disturbing
Tagline: They were ordinary young men driven to the very limits of human endurance.
Plot: On the afternoon of Friday, October 13 1972, one of the most controversial and inspirational tales of survival began when an airplane carrying a team of young rugby players from Uruguay crashed into the Andes Mountains. Several of the passengers died instantly but most survived. For eight days, they sat and waited to be rescued. But help never came and they learnt from the radio that the search had been abandoned. Soon their food and drink were gone. Forced to exist in sub-zero weather for ten weeks, the survivors endured the unimaginable by doing the unthinkable until three of the boys, Nando Parrado (Ethan Hawke), Antonio Balbi (Vincent Spano) and Robert Canessa (Josh Hamilton) left camp in an heroic attempt to trek out of the mountains for help... In October 1972, a plane chartered by the Uruguayan rugby team crashed in to the snow-covered Andes. Many passengers were killed on contact, but several people survived. They only had rations for a short time. When they learned through their transistor radio that the search effort for their plane had been aborted, two team members tried to cross the Andes in search of civilization. A young medical student warned them that if they wanted to survive until help arrived they must eat the flesh of their dead compatriots. When the
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