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Alive
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Alive is a 1993 survival film directed by Frank Marshall and written by John Patrick Shanley, based on Piers Paul Read's Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors and narrated by John Malkovich. It stars Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton, and John Haymes Newton, with a score by James Newton Howard and Franz Schubert, and depicts the 1972 Andes flight disaster in Uruguay and the Andes. Produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Robert Watts, and Bruce Cohen for Paramount Pictures and Touchstone Pictures, the film carried a budget of $32,000,000 against revenue of $36,700,000, and runs 127 minutes. It received 1 win and 1 nomination and is rated R.
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6.9The 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.
Cast
- Josh Hamilton as Roberto Canessa
- Bruce Ramsay as Carlitos Páez
- Ethan Hawke as Nando Parrado
- Vincent Spano as Antonio Balbi
- John Newton as Antonio Vizintín
- David Kriegel as Gustavo Zerbino
Themes
- airplane wreck
- based on true story
- rugby
- survival
- stranded
- airplane crash
- freezing
- disaster movie
- andes mountains
- frostbite
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Ratings
IMDb
7.1/10
68,275 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
63%
Metacritic
56/100
- Year
- 1993
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Genres
- Biography, Drama, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Frank Marshall
- Screenplay by
- John Patrick Shanley
- Based on
- Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors , by Piers Paul Read
- Produced by
- Kathleen Kennedy Robert Watts
- Starring
- Ethan Hawke Vincent Spano Josh Hamilton
- Cinematography
- Peter James
- Edited by
- Michael Kahn William Goldenberg
- Music by
- James Newton Howard
- Production companies
- Touchstone Pictures Paramount Pictures The Kennedy/Marshall Company
- Distributed by
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution , (United States and Canada) Paramount Pictures , (through United International Pictures , International)
- Release date
- January 15, 1993 ( 1993-01-15 )
- Running time
- 125 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $32 million
- Box office
- $82.5 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- 1972 Andes flight disaster
- Director
- Frank Marshall
- Screenwriter
- John Patrick Shanley
- Cast member
- Christian Meoli
- Composer
- Franz Schubert
- Producer
- Bruce Cohen
- Production company
- TriStar Pictures
- Narrative location
- Andes
- Filming location
- Purcell Mountains
- Duration
- 127
- FilmAffinity ID
- 100072
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Crash site.JPG
Show 13 more facts
- publication date
- 1993-05-13
- film editor
- William Goldenberg
- title
- Alive
- narrator
- John Malkovich
- after a work by
- Piers Paul Read
- distributed by
- Netflix
- production designer
- Norman Reynolds
- different from
- Alive
- set in environment
- aircraft
- review score
- 62%
- characters
- Carlos Páez Rodríguez
- box office
- 36733909
- capital cost
- 32000000
Sources (15)
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Encyclopedic overview
Alive is a 1993 American survival drama film directed by Frank Marshall, and based on Piers Paul Read's 1974 book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors. It is the second feature film about the Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes mountains in 1972. Filmed in the Purcell Mountains in British Columbia, the film was written by John Patrick Shanley, narrated by John Malkovich, and stars Ethan Hawke, Josh Hamilton, Vincent Spano, Bruce Ramsay, John Haymes Newton, Illeana Douglas, and Danny Nucci. One of the survivors, Nando Parrado (portrayed by Hawke in the film), served as the technical advisor for the film.
Alive was released on January 15, 1993 by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution through the Touchstone Pictures label in the United States and Canada and by Paramount Pictures through United International Pictures in international markets. The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics and grossed $82.5 million on a $32 million budget.
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