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Alive is a 1993 American biographical survival drama film based on Piers Paul Read's 1974 book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, which details a Uruguayan rugby team's crash aboard Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 into the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972.
Jun 24, 2020 · A severely injured man and woman awake in an abandoned sanitarium only to discover that a sadistic caretaker holds the keys to their freedom and the horrific answers as to their real identity.
- 2019
- Rob Grant
- Horror | Indie
Six passengers are killed when they are ejected from the plane including the steward, and another six die shortly afterward including both pilots, Alex, Nando's mom Eugenia, and an older couple. Nando, who sustained a head injury, falls into a coma and Susana suffers harsh internal injuries.
Jan 15, 1993 · The story of the Andes survivors may be one of them. After their plane crashed high in the mountains on a flight to Chile, they survived for most of a winter in the shell of their wrecked aircraft, living on wine, chocolate and the flesh of their dead comrades.
Alive: Directed by Frank Marshall. With Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton, Bruce Ramsay. After crash-landing in the snowswept Andes, a Uruguayan rugby team has no choice but to turn to desperate measures in order to survive.
- (65K)
- Biography, Drama, Thriller
- Frank Marshall
- 1993-01-15
Intense, based-on-a-true-story survival tale is riveting. Read Common Sense Media's Alive review, age rating, and parents guide.
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 an impressive and timeless film based on a true event – the crash of a plane on the Andes in 1972.
